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苹果CEO库克华盛顿大学演讲稿 苹果CEO库克华盛顿大学演讲稿是苹果公司CEO库克在华盛顿大学的毕业演讲，在美国在毕业前夕，学校会邀请名人进行校园演讲，意味着大学毕业后的新开始，下面是这篇苹果CEO库克华盛顿大学演讲稿 苹果CEO库克华盛顿大学演讲稿全文 人生不能只做观众! Hello GW. Thank you very much President Knapp for that kind intro. Alex, trustees, faculty and deans of theuniversity, my fellow honorees, and especially you the class of 2015. Yes. Congratulations to you, to your family, to your friends that are attending todays ceremony. Youmade it. Its a privilege, a rare privilege of a lifetime to be with you today. And I think thank youenough for making me an honorary Colonial. Before I begin today, they asked me to make a standard announcement. Youve heard this before.About silencing your phones. Those of you with an iPhone, just place it in silent mode. If you donthave an iPhone, please pass it to the center aisle. Apple has a worldclass recycling program. You know, this is really an amazing place. And for a lot of you, Im sure that being here inWashington, the very center of our democracy, was a big draw when you were choosing whichschool to go to. This place has a powerful pull. It was here that Dr. Martin Luther King challengedAmericans to make real the promises of democracy, to make justice a reality for all of Godschildren. And it was here that President Ronald Reagan called on us to believe in ourselves and to believe inour capacity to perform great deeds. Id like to start this morning by telling you about my first visithere. In the summer of 1977 yes, Im a little old I was 16 years old and living in Robertsdale, thesmall town in southern Alabama that I grew up in. At the end of my junior year of high school Idwon an essay contest sponsored by the National Rural Electric Association. I cant remember whatthe essay was about, what I do remember very clearly is writing it by hand, draft after draft afterdraft. Typewriters were very expensive and my family could not afford one. I was one of two kids from Bal