美国波士顿时间5月25日下午3点，哈佛大学举办了2017届学生的毕业典礼。Facebook创始人马克·扎克伯格回到母校，做了毕业典礼演讲。
小扎：盖茨前辈，哈佛要我给毕业生演讲，可他们知道我们其实都没有毕业过吧？
盖茨：这就是最妙的地方了！哈佛还会送你一个学位呢！最重要的是，要在参加授位典礼的时候，光着身子穿学位袍裸奔！
小扎还发了个状态说：“妈，人家跟你保证过一定会重返学校，拿到学位的！”
在这场毕业典礼演讲中，小扎主要讲到了三点：
第一，我们作为千禧一代，仅仅找到我们个人的目的或使命是不够的；
第二，我们这一代面临的挑战是，要创造一个每个人都有使命感的世界，这是真正幸福的关键，也是我们保持社会进步的唯一途径；
第三，那就是建立起一个连接的世界，先从本土的社群做起。
演讲结束时，冒雨观看的各位都起身鼓掌
哈佛校友韩璧丞在现场发来的照片
中文翻译 | 硅谷密探
文章来源 | 硅谷密探
President Faust, Board of Overseers, faculty, alumni, friends, proud parents, members of the ad board, and graduates of the greatest university in the world,I'm honored to be with you today because, let's face it, you accomplished something I never could. If I get through this speech, it'll be the first time I actually finish something at Harvard. Class of 2017, congratulations!
Faust校长，校监委员会成员们，老师、校友、朋友、自豪的家长们、管理委员会的委员们，以及全世界最伟大学校的毕业生们！今天和你们待在一起我备感荣幸，因为说实话，你们完成了一个我永远无法办到的成就。等我做完这个演讲，这将是我第一次在哈佛大学完成的某件事。2017的毕业班同学，祝贺你们！
I'm an unlikely speaker, not just because I dropped out, but because we're technically in the same generation. We walked this yard less than a decade apart, studied the same ideas and slept through the same Ec10 lectures. We may have taken different paths to get here, especially if you came all the way from the Quad, but today，I want to share what I've learned about our generation and the world we're building together.
我本不可能是站在这里发表演讲的人，不仅仅因为我是一名辍学生，还因为其实我们是同一代人。我作为学生走在这个校园里，也就是不过十年前的事情。我们学习过同样的知识，同样在EC10课堂上补觉。尽管我们通过不同的方式来到这里，尤其那些来自Quad园区的同学
（The Quad以前是Radcliffe College的女生宿舍。Radcliffe从1879至1977年是哈佛的女性学院，1977年汇入哈佛）
；但今天我想和你们分享的是，我对我们这代人的一些想法，和我们正在合力建设的这个世界。
But first, the last couple of days have brought back a lot of good memories.
首先，过去几天令我想起很多美好的回忆。
How many of you remember exactly what you were doing when you got that email telling you that you got into Harvard? I was playing Civilization and I ran downstairs, got my dad, and for some reason, his reaction was to video me opening the email. That could have been a really sad video. I swear getting into Harvard is still the thing my parents are most proud of me for.
你们当中多少人还确切记得，当初收到哈佛的录取通知邮件时在做什么？当时我正在玩《文明》游戏，然后我跑下楼，找到我的父亲，不过他的反应很奇怪，居然开始拍摄我打开邮件的过程。那个视频可能看着挺难过吧。但我发誓，被哈佛录取，是最令我父母为我感到骄傲的事情。
What about your first lecture at Harvard? Mine was Computer Science 121 with the incredible Harry Lewis. I was late so I threw on a t-shirt and didn't realize until afterwards it was inside out and backwards with my tag sticking out the front. I couldn't figure out why no one would talk to me -- except one guy, KX Jin, he just went with it. We ended up doing our problem sets together, and now he runs a big part of Facebook. And that, Class of 2017, is why you should be nice to people.
你们还记得在哈佛上的第一节课吗？我上的是计算机121，Harry Lewis老师超级棒。当时我要迟到了，于是抓了件T恤就套在身上，结果直到下午才发现我把它前后里外都穿反了，商标都露在前胸。然后我还纳闷怎么没人理我，除了一个人，KX Jin，他没有在意这些。之后，我们开始组队解决难题，现在他负责Facebook很大一块业务。这说明什么？2017的毕业生们，这说明为什么你们应该对别人友善一些。
But my best memory from Harvard was meeting Priscilla. I had just launched this prank website Facemash, and the ad board wanted to "see me". Everyone thought I was going to get kicked out. My parents came to help me pack. My friends threw me a going away party. As luck would have it, Priscilla was at that party with her friend. We met in line for the bathroom in the Pfoho Belltower, and in what must be one of the all time romantic lines, I said: "I'm going to get kicked out in three days, so we need to go on a date quickly."
但是我在哈佛最美好的回忆，是我遇见了Priscilla（扎克伯格妻子）。当时我刚上线一个恶作剧网站Facemash，然后管理委员会表示“要见我”，所有人都认为我要被赶走了。我爸妈来帮我打包行李；我朋友帮我搞了个告别派对。幸运的事情就在这里，Priscilla和她朋友一起，来到了这个Party。我们在Pfoho Belltower的卫生间外排队时遇见了，接下来发生了一件永生难忘的浪漫事件——我说：“我三天后就要被赶出学校了，所以我们需要尽快开始约会。”
Actually, any of you graduating can use that line.
事实上，你们所有人都可以使用这个套路。
I didn't end up getting kicked out -- I did that to myself. Priscilla and I started dating. And, you know, that movie made it seem like Facemash was so important to creating Facebook. It wasn't. But without Facemash I wouldn't have met Priscilla, and she's the most important person in my life, so you could say it was the most important thing I built in my time here.
我没有被开除——我想办法留下来了。Priscilla开始和我约会。你们知道，那部电影（《社交网络》）说的Facemash对创造Facebook好像很重要似的。并非如此。但是没有Facemash的话，我遇不到Priscilla。她是我生命中最重要的人，所以从这个角度说，Facemash是我人生中做出的最重要的一样东西。
We've all started lifelong friendships here, and some of us even families. That's why I'm so grateful to this place. Thanks, Harvard.
在这里，我们开始结交一生的挚友，甚至有的以后会成为家人。这是为什么我对这里如此感激的原因。谢谢你，哈佛！
Today I want to talk about purpose. But I'm not here to give you the standard commencement about finding your purpose. We're millennials. We'll try to do that instinctively. Instead, I'm here to tell you finding your purpose isn't enough. The challenge for our generation is creating a world where everyone has a sense of purpose.
今天我想谈谈目标（Purpose），但是我不是来给你们做一些程序化的宣言，告诉你们如何发现目标的。我们是千禧一代，我们会出于直觉和本能发现目标。相反地，我站在这里要说的，是仅仅发现目标还不够。我们这代人面临的挑战，是创造一个人人都能有使命感的世界。
One of my favorite stories is when John F Kennedy visited the NASA space center, he saw a janitor carrying a broom and he walked over and asked what he was doing. The janitor responded: "Mr. President, I'm helping put a man on the moon".
我最喜欢的一个故事，是约翰·F·肯尼迪访问美国宇航局太空中心时，看到了一个拿着扫帚的看门人。于是他走过去问这人在干什么。看门人回答说：“总统先生，我正在帮助把一个人送往月球。”
Purpose is that sense that we are part of something bigger than ourselves, that we are needed, that we have something better ahead to work for. Purpose is what creates true happiness.
目标是我们意识到我们是比自己更大的东西的一部分，是我们被需要的、我们需要更为之努力的东西。目标能创造真正的快乐。
You're graduating at a time when this is especially important. When our parents graduated, purpose reliably came from your job, your church, your community. But today, technology and automation are eliminating many jobs. Membership in communities is declining. Many people feel disconnected and depressed, and are trying to fill a void.
今天，你在这个特别重要的时刻毕业了。当你父母毕业的时候，目标很大程度上来自工作、教会、社群。但是今天，技术和自动化正在代替很多工作，社区成员人数也在下降。许多人感到沮丧，感到自己被隔离开来了，同时也在努力填补空白。
As I've traveled around, I've sat with children in juvenile detention and opioid addicts, who told me their lives could have turned out differently if they just had something to do, an after school program or somewhere to go. I've met factory workers who know their old jobs aren't coming back and are trying to find their place.
当我走过很多地方的时候，我曾和许多被拘留的、阿片类药物成瘾的孩子们坐在一起，他们告诉我如果他们有事可做，参加课后活动或者有地方可去，他们的人生会变得很不一样。我也遇到过很多工厂的工人，他们没法再从事之前从事的工作了，所以试图找到新的能做的事。
To keep our society moving forward, we have a generational challenge -- to not only create new jobs, but create a renewed sense of purpose.
为了保持社会的进步，我们身负挑战——不仅仅是创造新的工作，还要创造新的目标。
I remember the night I launched Facebook from my little dorm in Kirkland House. I went to Noch's with my friend KX. I remember telling him I was excited to connect the Harvard community, but one day someone would connect the whole world.
我还记得在Kirkland House的小宿舍中创造Facebook的那晚。我和我的朋友KX去了Noch。我记得我告诉他，我很开心能把哈佛的社群连接起来，但是有一天，有人会把整个世界都连接起来。
The thing is, it never even occurred to me that someone might be us. We were just college kids. We didn't know anything about that. There were all these big technology companies with resources. I just assumed one of them would do it. But this idea was so clear to us -- that all people want to connect. So we just kept moving forward, day by day.
我完全没有想到这个人会是我们。当时我们还只是大学生，对此还并不了解。所有这些大型技术公司都有资源，我只是认为其中一个大公司会做到这一点。但是，我对这个想法很确信——所有人都想和彼此连接，所以我们一直在朝这个方向努力前进。
I know a lot of you will have your own stories just like this. A change in the world that seems so clear you're sure someone else will do it. But they won't. You will. But it's not enough to have purpose yourself. You have to create a sense of purpose for others.
我知道你们中的很多人也会有类似的故事。你觉得很多人都在改变世界，然而他们并没有，而你会。
但是，光有目标是不够的。你必须拥有心系他人的目标。
I found that out the hard way. You see, my hope was never to build a company, but to make an impact. And as all these people started joining us, I just assumed that's what they cared about too, so I never explained what I hoped we'd build.
意识到这点非常难。我从来没想过创造一个公司，我想要的是创造影响力。越来越多的人加入我们，我假设他们跟我关心的是同样的东西，所以我从来没解释过我到底希望建立什么。
A couple years in, some big companies wanted to buy us. I didn't want to sell. I wanted to see if we could connect more people. We were building the first News Feed, and I thought if we could just launch this, it could change how we learn about the world.
几年来，一些大公司想要收购我们。我拒绝了。我想知道是否能连接更多的人。我们正在建立第一个新闻流（News Feed），当时我想，如果我们能做到这一点，它可能会改变我们学习世界的方式。
Nearly everyone else wanted to sell. Without a sense of higher purpose, this was the startup dream come true. It tore our company apart. After one tense argument, an advisor told me if I didn't agree to sell, I would regret the decision for the rest of my life. Relationships were so frayed that within a year or so every single person on the management team was gone.
几乎所有人都想让我把公司卖了。没有更高远的使命感，这个创业公司不可能梦想成真。经过激烈的争论后，一位顾问跟我说，如果我不同意出售，我会后悔一辈子。一年左右的时间里，当时的管理层几乎都走了。
That was my hardest time leading Facebook. I believed in what we were doing, but I felt alone. And worse, it was my fault. I wondered if I was just wrong, an imposter, a 22 year-old kid who had no idea how the world worked.
这是我在Facebook时最艰难的时刻。我相信我们在做的东西，但是我也感到孤独。更糟糕的是，当时我觉得这是我的错。我在想是不是我错了，一个22岁的小孩，都不知道世界是怎么运转的。
Now, years later, I understand that *is* how things work with no sense of higher purpose. It's up to us to create it so we can all keep moving forward together.
多年以后的今天，我明白了那是因为没有更高的目标。是否创造它取决于我们，所以我们能一起前进。
Today I want to talk about three ways to create a world where everyone has a sense of purpose: by taking on big meaningful projects together, by redefining equality so everyone has the freedom to pursue purpose, and by building community across the world.
今天我想谈谈创造一个每个人都有使命感的世界的三种方法：一起做有意义的项目；通过重新定义平等，使每个人都有追求目标的自由；在全世界建立社群。
First, let's take on big meaningful projects.
首先，让我们来说说做有意义的项目。
Our generation will have to deal with tens of millions of jobs replaced by automation like self-driving cars and trucks. But we have the potential to do so much more together.
我们这一代将不得不面对数千万的工作被机器取代的情况，比如自动驾驶。但我们还有很多事能一起去完成。
Every generation has its defining works. More than 300,000 people worked to put a man on the moon – including that janitor. Millions of volunteers immunized children around the world against polio. Millions of more people built the Hoover dam and other great projects.
每一代都有属于自己一代的作品。比如有超过30万人一起努力，让人类登上了月球——包括那个看门的人；数百万志愿者为世界各地的小儿麻痹症患者打疫苗；数以百万计的人为建立胡佛水坝和其他伟大的项目贡献了自己的力量。
These projects didn't just provide purpose for the people doing those jobs, they gave our whole country a sense of pride that we could do great things.
做这些项目的使命，并不仅仅是为人们提供工作，而是让我们整个国家感到自豪，我们可以做一些伟大的事情。
Now it's our turn to do great things. I know, you're probably thinking: I don't know how to build a dam, or get a million people involved in anything.
现在轮到我们来做一些伟大的事了。我知道，你可能会想：我不知道如何建造大坝，或者如何让一百万人参与到任何事情中来。
But let me tell you a secret: no one does when they begin. Ideas don't come out fully formed. They only become clear as you work on them. You just have to get started.
但我想告诉你一个秘密：没有人从一开始就知道如何做，想法并不会在最初就完全成型。只有当你工作时才变得逐渐清晰，你只需要做的就是开始。
If I had to understand everything about connecting people before I began, I never would have started Facebook.
如果我必须在开始（Facebook）之前就了解清楚“如何连接人”的想法，那么我就不会启动Facebook了。
Movies and pop culture get this all wrong. The idea of a single eureka moment is a dangerous lie. It makes us feel inadequate since we haven't had ours. It prevents people with seeds of good ideas from getting started. Oh, you know what else movies get wrong about innovation? No one writes math formulas on glass. That's not a thing.
或许电影和流行文化会让人觉得被误导，那些想法会出现在一些灵光一闪的时刻，这其实是一个危险的谎言。这让我们感到不满足，因为我们没有了我们自己的（行动），它会阻止那些拥有好想法的人去开始。对了，你知道电影当中还有什么是对创新的误解吗？那就是，没有人会在玻璃上写数学公式。那不是什么事。
It's good to be idealistic. But be prepared to be misunderstood. Anyone working on a big vision will get called crazy, even if you end up right. Anyone working on a complex problem will get blamed for not fully understanding the challenge, even though it's impossible to know everything upfront. Anyone taking initiative will get criticized for moving too fast, because there's always someone who wants to slow you down.
其实，理想主义是好事，但你要做好被误解的准备。任何为了更大愿景工作的人可能会被称为疯子，即使你最终获得成功。任何为了复杂问题工作的人都会因为不能全面了解挑战而被指责，即使你不可能事先了解一切。任何抓住主动权先行一步的人都会因为步子太快而受到批评，因为总是有人想让你慢下来。
In our society, we often don't do big things because we're so afraid of making mistakes that we ignore all the things wrong today if we do nothing. The reality is, anything we do will have issues in the future. But that can't keep us from starting.
在我们的社会里，我们并不经常做一些伟大的事，因为我们害怕犯错。如果我们什么都不做，我们就忽视了今天所有的错误。事实上，我们所做的任何事情将来都会有问题。但这不能阻止我们开始。
So what are we waiting for? It's time for our generation-defining public works.
How about stopping climate change before we destroy the planet and getting millions of people involved manufacturing and installing solar panels? How about curing all diseases and asking volunteers to track their health data and share their genomes? Today we spend 50x more treating people who are sick than we spend finding cures so people don’t get sick in the first place. That makes no sense. We can fix this. How about modernizing democracy so everyone can vote online, and personalizing education so everyone can learn?
那我们还在等什么呢？ 现在轮到我们这一代人定义“公共事务”的时候了。
在地球摧毁之前，如何阻止气候变化？如何让数百万人愿意参与制造和安装太阳能电池板？ 如何治愈所有疾病？如何要求志愿者跟踪他们的健康数据和分享他们的基因组？ 今天，我们可能要花上50倍的价格去治疗病人，而不是找到一种治疗方法让人类第一时间无法染上疾病。这并不合理，我们可以解决这个问题。 民主现代化如何让每个人都能在网上投票，以及通过个性化教育让每个人都能学习？
These achievements are within our reach. Let's do them all in a way that gives everyone in our society a role. Let's do big things, not only to create progress, but to create purpose.
这些成就在我们能力范围内是可以实现的，让我们让每个人在我们社会中发挥其应有的作用来做这些事情。让我们做一些伟大的事情，不仅要创造进步，而是要创造purpose。
So taking on big meaningful projects is the first thing we can do to create a world where everyone has a sense of purpose.
所以我们可以做的第一件事就是，创造一个每人都拥有使命感的世界。
The second is redefining equality to give everyone the freedom they need to pursue purpose.
第二件事是，重新定义平等，让每个人都有追求目的的自由。
Many of our parents had stable jobs throughout their careers. Now we're all entrepreneurial, whether we're starting projects or finding or role. And that's great. Our culture of entrepreneurship is how we create so much progress.
我们这一代人的父母，很多在整个职业生涯中都有稳定的工作。但是现在，我们这一代人都是企业家，无论我们是刚开始一些项目还是在寻找、或是已经扮演着这个角色。这都很棒，我们的创业文化恰好是导致我们创造如此多进步的原因。
Now, an entrepreneurial culture thrives when it's easy to try lots of new ideas. Facebook wasn't the first thing I built. I also built games, chat systems, study tools and music players. I'm not alone. JK Rowling got rejected 12 times before publishing Harry Potter. Even Beyonce had to make hundreds of songs to get Halo. The greatest successes come from having the freedom to fail.
现在，只要在尝试很多新想法的时候，创业文化就会蓬勃发展。 Facebook并不是我做的第一件事，我还做过游戏、聊天系统、学习工具和音乐播放器。我并不孤独， 因为JK罗琳在出版《哈利波特》之前被拒绝了12次，即使碧昂丝也不得不写了数百首歌曲，才有了今天Halo这首歌获得的光环。最大的成功来自于我们享有失败的自由。
