比爾•蓋茨給年輕時候自己的建議

Microsoft founder Bill Gates has revealed he would advise his younger self that “smartness” is not necessarily the most important thing in life.

微軟創始人比爾•蓋茨透露，他會告訴年輕時候的自己“機靈”不一定是生命中最重要的事。

The billionaire, who dropped out of university to develop the Windows software which revolutionised the IT world, said that intelligence is not as “single dimensional” as he once believed.

這位大學中途退學開發了Windows軟件，使IT界發生巨大變革的億萬富翁說，智力並不再是他曾經認爲的單一維度。

The world’s richest man made his comments in an “ask me anything” session with Reddit.

上述言論出自世界首富在Reddit上的“有問必答”對話中。

“I would explain that smartness is not as single dimensional and not quite as important as I thought it was back then,” he said in reply to a question about advice to his nineteen-year-old self.

“我會解釋聰明不是唯一指標，也沒當時想的那麼重要，”他在回答關於給19歲的自己一些建議這個問題時說道。

“I would say you might explore the developing world before you get into your forties.

“我會建議在40歲之前探索發展中國家。”

“I wasn’t very good socially back then but I am not sure there is advice that would fix that – maybe I had to be awkward and just grow up.”

“那時的我不善交際，但是我不確定有沒有建議能改掉這點——或許我就得笨笨地長大了”

The young Mr Gates was an academic high flyer at his private school in Seattle, scoring a near-perfect 1590 (out of a possible 1600) in his SATs and winning a place at Harvard University.

年輕的蓋茨先生在西雅圖的私立學校是個學霸，參加美國高考得了接近滿分的1590分（滿分1600），成功考入哈佛大學。

He enrolled to study law at the Ivy League college, although like many young people, he wasn’t sure what he wanted to do in life and spent most of his time at university on computers beofre dropping out in 1975.

他進入常青藤盟校學習法律，但是就像許多年輕人一樣，他不確定自己想要的是什麼，在他1975年退學之前，他在大學花費最多的時間是在電腦上。

“Right now I am very focused on making sure we successfully eradicate polio – that will be amazing if we do it – as good as shipping even the best software product.”

“現在我專注於如何成功根除小兒麻痹症——如果我們做到了，將會震驚世界——就像我們推出最好的軟件產品一樣棒。”

Discussing the role IT plays in society, the entrepreneur anticipated the day when computers can “read and understand information like humans do.”

討論IT在社會中扮演的角色時，這位企業家期望計算機能“像人類一樣閱讀並理解信息”。

“There is a lot of work going on in this field – Google, Microsoft, Facebook, academia …Right now computers don’t know how to represent knowledge so they can’t read a text book or pass a test.”

“這個領域仍有很多工作要做——谷歌，微軟，臉書，大學……現在計算機還不知道怎樣表述知識，所以它們不能讀課本或者通過考試。”

Asked where he sees himself in fifteen years, the 61-year-old father of three said he hopes to be a grandfather – but did not answer questions on whether he would ever consider running for US President.

當被問及覺得15年後的自己會怎樣，這位有三個孩子的61歲父親說道，他希望能當上爺爺——但是沒有回答是否會考慮競選美國總統的問題。