Thank you! President Bok, former President Rudenstine, incoming President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, parents, and especially the graduates:
谢谢大家！尊敬的博克校长，鲁登斯坦前校长，即将上任的浮士德校长，哈佛集团的各位成员，监管理事会的各位理事，各位老师，各位家长，各位同学：
I've been waiting more than 30 years to say this: "Dad, I always told you I'd come back and get my degree."
有一句话我等了三十年，现在终于可以说了：“老爸，我总是跟您说，我会回来拿到我的学位的！”
I want to thank Harvard for this honor. I'll be changing my job next year...and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume.
我要感谢哈佛大学给我这个荣誉。明年，我就要换工作了（注：指从微软公司退休）……我终于可以在简历上写我有一个大学学位，这真是太好了！
I applaud the graduates for taking a much more direct route to your degrees. For my part, I'm just happy that the Crimson has called me "Harvard's most successful dropout." I guess that makes me valedictorian of my own special class... I did the best of everyone who failed.
我为今天在座的各位同学感到高兴，你们拿到学位可比我容易多了。哈佛的校报称我是“哈佛大学历史上最成功的辍学生”。我想这大概是因为我有资格代表我这一类学生发言——在所有的辍学者里，我做得最好。
But I also want to be recognized as the guy who got Steve Ballmer to drop out of business school. I'm a bad influence. That's why I was invited to speak at your graduation. If I had spoken at your orientation, fewer of you might be here today.
但是，我还要提醒大家，是我使史蒂夫·鲍尔默（注：微软首席执行官）也从哈佛商学院退学了。我是个有着恶劣影响的人。这就是为什么我被邀请来在你们的毕业典礼上演讲。如果我在你们入学欢迎仪式上演讲，那么熊猫坚持到今天在这里毕业的人也许会少得多吧。
