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十一：Bill Gates: Unleashing Your Creativity 比尔?盖茨：发挥你的创造力　　1.Ive always been an optimist and I suppose it is rooted in my belief that the power of creativity and intelligence can make the world a better place. 1.我一直是个乐观主义者，我想这是因为我深信创造力和智慧能使世界变得更美好。　2.For as long as I can remember, Ive loved learning new things and solving problems. So when I sat down at a computer for the first time in seventh grade, I was hooked. It was a clunky old teletype machine and it could barely do anything compared to the computers we have today. But it changed my life. 2.在我的记忆中，我喜欢学习新东西、解决难题。所以当我七年级时第一次坐在电脑前时，我立刻被吸引住类。那是一台笨重的旧式电传打字机，跟我们今天的电脑相比几乎什么事都不能做。但是它却改变我的一生。　3.When my friend Paul Allen and I started Microsoft 30 years ago, we had a vision of puter on every desk and in every home, which probably sounded a little too optimistic at a time when most computers were the size of refrigerators. But we believed that personal computers would change the world. And they have. 3.30年前我和朋友保罗?艾伦创办微软的时候，我们预见到一个“每个办公桌和每个家庭都会有一台电脑”的时代。在那个计算机像冰箱一样大的时代，这听起来也许太乐观了一点。但是我们相信个人计算机会改变世界。而它们真的做到了。4.And after 30 years, Im still as inspired by computers as I was back in seventh grade.4.30年后的今天，计算机仍然会激发我的热情，好像我又回到了七年级的年代。5.I believe that computers are the most incredible tool we can use to feed our curiosity and　inventiveness -- to help us solve problems that even the smartest people couldnt solve on their own. 5.我认为计算机是能满足我们的好奇心，激发我们创造精神的最神奇的工具，它能帮助我们解决最聪明的人都不能独自解决的问题。　6.Computers have transformed how we learn, giving kids everywhere a window into all of the worlds knowledge. Theyre helping us build communities around the things we care about and to stay close to the people who are important to us, no matter where they are. 6.计算机改变了我们的学习方式，为世界各地的孩子们提供了一个学习各种知识的窗口。它帮助我们就我们所关心的事情建立一个交流的场所，并且与那些我们认为对我们有重要意义的人密切相处，不管他们身在何处。　7.Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it tap-dancing to Work. My job at Microsoft is as challenging as ever, but what mak