Chapter Ⅱ 站在巨人的肩上（18）
《最震撼人心的声音》作者：姜宇 2017-02-11 10:27
Chapter Ⅱ 站在巨人的肩上（18）
拉德克利夫是个过日子的好地方。那里的女生比男生多，而且大多数男生都是理工科的。这种状况为我创造了最好的机会，你们是否明白我的意思。可惜的是，我正是在这里学到了人生中悲伤的一课：机会大，并不保证你就会成功。
Radcliffe was a great place to live. There were more women up there, and most of the guys were science-math types. That combination offered me the best odds, if you know what I mean. This is where I learned the sad lesson that improving your odds doesn’t guarantee success.
我在哈佛最难忘的回忆之一，发生在1975年1月。那时，我从宿舍楼里给位于阿尔布开克的一家公司打了一个电话，那家公司已经在着手制造世界上第一台个人电脑。我提出想向他们出售软件。
One of my biggest memories of Harvard came in January 1975, when I made a call from Currier House to a company in Albuquerque that had begun making the world’s first personal computers. I offered to sell them software.
我很担心，他们会发觉我只是一个住在宿舍的学生，从而挂断电话。但是他们却说：“我们还没准备好，一个月后你再来找我们吧。”这是个好消息，因为那时软件还根本没有写出来呢。就是从那个时候起，我夜以继日地在这个小小的课外项目上工作，这标志了我接受大学教育的结束，以及通往微软公司的不平凡的旅程的开始。
I worried that they would realize I was just a student in a dorm and hang up on me. Instead they said, “We’re not quite ready, come see us in a month,” which was a good thing, because we hadn’t written the software yet. From that mo
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拉德克利夫是个过日子的好地方。那里的女生比男生多，而且大多数男生都是理工科的。这种状况为我创造了最好的机会，你们是否明白我的意思。可惜的是，我正是在这里学到了人生中悲伤的一课：机会大，并不保证你就会成功。
Radcliffe was a great place to live. There were more women up there, and most of the guys were science-math types. That combination offered me the best odds, if you know what I mean. This is where I learned the sad lesson that improving your odds doesn’t guarantee success.
我在哈佛最难忘的回忆之一，发生在1975年1月。那时，我从宿舍楼里给位于阿尔布开克的一家公司打了一个电话，那家公司已经在着手制造世界上第一台个人电脑。我提出想向他们出售软件。
One of my biggest memories of Harvard came in January 1975, when I made a call from Currier House to a company in Albuquerque that had begun making the world’s first personal computers. I offered to sell them software.
我很担心，他们会发觉我只是一个住在宿舍的学生，从而挂断电话。但是他们却说：“我们还没准备好，一个月后你再来找我们吧。”这是个好消息，因为那时软件还根本没有写出来呢。就是从那个时候起，我夜以继日地在这个小小的课外项目上工作，这标志了我接受大学教育的结束，以及通往微软公司的不平凡的旅程的开始。
I worried that they would realize I was just a student in a dorm and hang up on me. Instead they said, “We’re not quite ready, come see us in a month,” which was a good thing, because we hadn’t written the software yet. From that mo