·A choice about whether you"work to live"or whether you gonna"live to work."That should be a conscious choice. Don"t get trapped into the daily routine of showing up and just getting by While you"re excited about your fi rst"real"job， recognize that your interests and those of your employer are probably not the same. Having your employer tell you what a great job you"re doing and rewarding you for it is not the same as discovering your passion， and fi guring out who you are， and what"s rewarding for you. What I am saying is， "Don"t let a career just happen to you."
是为生活而工作，还是为工作而生活。你们必须清醒地做出选择，千万不要得过且过，浪费光阴。找到一份让你激动的真正的工作，但是别忘了你想做的工作，老板并不一定感兴趣。让老板决定你的工作价值和酬劳远不如做自己想做的事，认清自己的价值，自己决定酬劳，这正是我想说的：“不要盲目接受任何职业。”
·Whether you want to attempt to do something spectacular. This choice between be or do should be a question you never stop asking yourself-for the next 20 years. Beor Do
今后二十年，你们都不该忘记这个问题究竟：是替人打工，还是独立创业？打工还是创业？
·I realized that punching a time clock is not the way to change the world. I chose the path of entrepreneurship and never looked back. Engineers used to be the people who made other people"s ideas work. Today， they change the world. We live in a time where scientists and engineers are synonymous with continuous innovation.
按部就班的工作不可能改变世界，从此我走上了创业的道路再也没有回过头。以往工程师只能替别人实现梦想，今天工程师则可以改变世界。在这个时代，工程师已成为持续创新的代言人。
·Engineers like you have the capacity to move the world forward by continually asking"why not"It"s your special"doing"gene that empowers us to do better. You invent. You imagine. You see things that others don"t. Where others see blank canvases， you"ll see finished paintings. You hear the music that"s not written， you see the bridges that have yet to be built. You envision the products and companies that don"t exist yet.
这些不停在追问“为什么不”的工程师将改变世界。真是由于你们体内的行动基因，那是源源不断的动力，他们让我们做的更好。你们发明，你们猜想，你们憧憬着他人不曾见过的未来。旁人只看到空白画布，你们却看到了完成的作品。你们听到了尚未谱就的乐章，你们看到了尚未竣工的桥梁，你们酝酿着未来的公司和产品。
·You don"t have to stay in one job， and it"s really， really hard to starve to death. Now I predict that this season 78%of all commencement speeches are gonna have advice about"pursuing your passion and doing stuff you love."But no one actually tell you why. Well here"s the secret if you"re going to spend your career in a company， doing stuff you enjoy will help you keep showing up. But if you want to do something， something entrepreneurial， just loving what you do is isn"t enough. You"re pursuing ideas you can"t get out of your head. Ideas that you obsess about. That you work on in your spare time. Because that fearless vision and relentless passion are what it takes to sustain an entrepreneur through the inevitable bad times.
美国不会饿死人，你没必要守着一份工作不放。我估计八成的毕业致辞会鼓励大家追逐梦想，但是他们却不曾说明原因，其实就是这个秘密——如果你只想给公司打工，找一份热爱的工作就够了，可以保障你不迟到早退。但如果你想创业，仅仅热爱工作远远不够。只有那些为了梦想茶饭不思，愿意放弃业余生活，具备弃而不舍的创业激情和动力的人，才有勇气面对重重难关。
·In Silicon Valley， honest failure is a badge of experience. All of you will fail at some time in your career……or in love， or in life. No one ever sets out to fail. But being afraid to fail means you"ll be afraid to try. Playing it safe will get you nowhere.
在硅谷，成功是失败之母。每个人都会遇到挫折。生活挫折、事业挫折、感情挫折，大家都不愿意失败。但是害怕失败意味着害怕尝试，畏首畏尾终将一事无成。
·In Silicon Valley， we have a special word for a failed entrepreneur-it"s called experienced. Our country and our entrepreneurial culture is one of second and third chances. It"s what makes us great. You don"t have to change your name or leave town. Entrepreneurs in America know that they get multiple shots at the goal. Now someday several of you in this graduating class will be worth a $100 million dollars. And a few of you might change the way the world works.
在硅谷，我们对失败的创业者有特殊的寄语——失败是宝贵的经验。我们国家和创业的文化对失败者特别宽容。这是我们的优势，失败者不必隐姓埋名、远走他乡。在美国，失败了的企业家可以卷土重来，要知道没有人知道你们当中会有哪些人会成为亿万富翁，有哪些人会改变世界。
·One， whether you choose to be or you choose to do.
第一，是替人打工，还是独立创业。
·And whether you"work to live"or whether you"live to work".
第二，是为生活而工作，还是为工作而生活。
·Remember……live your life with no regrets. There"s no undo button.
记住，世上没有后悔药，不要让生命留下遗憾。
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明尼苏达理工学院（明尼阿波利斯）成立于1935年，是一所公立性质的学院。明尼苏达理工学院开设有本科、硕士和博士专业，如：航空航天工程与技术、天体物理学、生物医学工程学、生物产品与生物系统工程、化学工程、化学、土木工程、计算机工程、计算机科学、地球科学、电机工程、地质工程、材料学与工程、数学、机械工程学、物理、统计学、管理科学与动力系统、化学物理学、金融数学、基础设施体系工程等。大学成立初期，明尼苏达理工学院（明尼阿波利斯）在大学从一所预备学校到美国领先的公立大学的转变过程中扮演了重要的角色。在科学技术重新分配世界资源的今天，明尼苏达理工学院（明尼阿波利斯）的工作就是为了保证明尼苏达大学在新兴技术和前沿科学研究中获得领先地位。
明尼苏达理工学院（明尼阿波利斯）的教学使命是巩固所做的一切。明尼苏达理工学院（明尼阿波利斯）的座右铭——“发明未来”——体现在教师、学生和校友身上。他们是未来，是发展新技术，建立新的企业和教育下一代领导人的中坚力量。
