2019 Stanford Commencement address by Tim Cook

[Music] Stanford University please join me in welcoming Tim Cook thank you thank you good morning class of 2019 Thank You president Tessier Levine for that very generous introduction I'll do my

[音乐] 斯坦福大学，请随我一起欢迎蒂姆·库克。谢谢，谢谢。2019届的同学们，大家早上好。感谢泰西尔·莱文校长如此慷慨的介绍，我会尽力不负盛誉。

best to earn it before I begin I want to recognize everyone whose hard work made this celebration possible including the groundskeepers assured volunteers and crew thank you I am deeply honored

在开始之前，我想向所有为这场庆典付出辛勤努力的人致敬，包括场地维护人员、热心的志愿者和工作人员。谢谢大家。能受邀参加这个意义非凡的时刻，我深感荣幸，甚至可以说有些惊讶。

and frankly a little astonished to be invited to join you for this most meaningful of occasions graduates this is your day but you didn't get here alone family and friends teachers

毕业生们，这是属于你们的日子，但你们并非独自走到今天。家人、朋友、老师、导师、挚爱，当然还有你们的父母，大家共同努力才成就了今天的你们，他们今日也同享这份喜悦。

mentors loved ones and of course your parents all work together to make you possible and they share your joy today here on Father's Day let's give the dads in particular a

恰逢父亲节，让我们特别为在场的父亲们鼓掌喝彩。斯坦福对我而言意义非凡，不仅因为我住在这里仅一英里半的地方。

round of applause Stanford is near to my heart not least because I live just a mile and a half from here of course if my accident hasn't given it away for

当然，如果我的意外还没让你们察觉的话，在我人生的前半段，我只能远远地仰望这所校园。我在美国另一端的奥本大学求学，那里位于内陆的阿拉巴马州东部。

the first part of my life I had to admire this place from a distance I went to school on the other side of the country at Auburn University in the heart

你可能不知道，我四年都在校帆船队。那时条件并不优越，最近的码头开车要三个小时。

of landlocked eastern Alabama you may not know this but I was on the sailing team all four years it wasn't easy back then the closest marina was a three-hour drive for

大多数时候，我们得等大雨把足球场淹了才能练习。打绳结可不容易，谁知道呢？然而，尽管困难重重，我们还是奇迹般地做到了。

practice most of the time we had to wait for a heavy rainstorm to flood the football field and tying knots is hard who knew yet somehow against all odds we managed

每次都能战胜斯坦福，我们一定是运气好。开玩笑归开玩笑，我知道自己真正站在这里的原因，而且我深知其分量。

to beat Stanford every time we must have gotten lucky with a wind kidding aside I know the real reason I'm here and I don't take it lightly Stanford and Silicon Valley's

斯坦福与硅谷的根基是交织在一起的，我们是同一个生态系统的一部分。十四年前史蒂夫站在这个讲台上时是这样，今天依然如此，未来很长一段时间恐怕也是如此。

roots are woven together we're part of the same ecosystem it was true when Steve stood on this stage 14 years ago it's true today and presumably it'll be true for a

过去的几十年让我们共同腾飞，但今天我们聚集在此，正值一个需要深思的时刻：咖啡因与代码激发着乐观，理想主义与信念支撑着对人工智能和创造力的追求。

while longer still the past few decades have lifted us together but today we gather at a moment that demands some reflection fueled by caffeine and code optimism and idealism conviction in

几代斯坦福毕业生和辍学生利用技术重塑了我们的社会，但我认为你们会同意，最近的结果并不整洁或直截了当。

AI and creativity generations of Stanford graduates and dropouts have used technology to remake our society but I think you would agree that lately the results haven't been neat or straightforward in

就在你们在这座“农场”度过的短短四年里，形势似乎急转直下。危机磨平了乐观，后果挑战了理想，现实动摇了盲目的信仰。

just the four years that you've been here at the farm things feel like they've taken a sharp turn crisis has tempered optimism consequences have challenged idealism and reality has shaken blind

尽管如此，我们仍被此地吸引，理由充分：伟大的梦想在此孕育，实现它们的智慧与激情也在此汇聚。在一个愤世嫉俗的时代，这里依然相信人类解决问题的潜力是无限的。

faith and yet we are still drawn here for good reason big dreams live here as do the genius and passion to make them real in an age of cynicism this place

同样，我们制造问题的潜力似乎也无穷无尽。这正是我今天想探讨的话题，因为如果我学到了一件事，那就是：技术不会改变我们的本质，它只会放大我们的本质——无论是好的还是坏的。

still believes that the human capacity to solve problems is boundless but so it seems is our potential to create them that's what I'm interested in talking about today because if I've

无论是在伊甸园还是在今天，都是我们的人性让我们陷入困境，也将是我们的人性带我们走出泥潭。首先，这是一个显而易见的事实：硅谷在现代史上负责了一些最具革命性的发明。

learned one thing it's the technology doesn't change who we are it magnifies who we are the good and the bad our problems in technology in politics wherever our human problems from

从惠普车库里制造的第一台振荡器，到你们手中握着的iPhone，再到连接地球一半人的社交媒体、可分享的短视频和故事，它们都源于斯坦福的后院。

the Garden of Eden to today it's our humanity that got us into this mess and it's our humanity that's going to have to get us out first things first here's a

但最近，这个行业似乎因一种不那么高尚的创新而更为人所知：即声称拥有功劳却不愿承担责任。我们每天都在见证这一点：每一次数据泄露、每一次隐私侵犯、每一次对仇恨言论视而不见。

plain fact Silicon Valley is responsible for some of the most revolutionary inventions in modern history from the first oscillator built in a Hewlett Packard garage to the iPhones that I know

每一次虚假新闻毒化我们的国家对话，每一次用一滴血换取虚假奇迹，都有太多人认为良好的意图可以抵消有害的后果。但不管你喜不喜欢，你所构建和创造的东西定义了你是谁。

you're holding in your hands social media shareable video snaps and stories that connect half the people on earth they all trace their roots to Stanford's backyard but lately it seems this

这听起来有点疯狂，竟有人觉得必须说这些，但如果建立了一个混乱工厂，你就无法逃避混乱带来的责任。承担责任意味着有勇气深思熟虑，而在隐私问题上，这一点尤为重要。

industry is becoming better known for a less noble innovation the belief that you can claim credit without accepting responsibility we see it every day now with every data breach every privacy

如果我们接受生活中的一切都可以被聚合、出售，甚至在黑客攻击中泄露是正常且不可避免的这一观点，那么我们失去的将远不止数据。我们将失去作为人的自由。

violation every blind I turn to hate speech fake news poisoning our national conversation the false miracles in exchange for a single drop of your blood too many seem to think that

想想看，我们面临的风险是什么：你写的每一句话、说的每一个字、每一个好奇的主题、每一个...

good intentions excuse away harmful outcomes but whether you like it or not what you build and what you create define who you are it feels a bit crazy that anyone should

良好的初衷无法为有害的后果开脱；无论你是否愿意，你所构建和创造的一切定义了你是谁。令人感到些许荒谬的是，竟有人以为可以如此行事。

have to say this but if you built a chaos factory you can't dodge responsibility for the chaos taking responsibility means having the courage to think things through and there are few

我不得不说，如果你制造了混乱，就不能逃避对混乱负责；承担责任意味着有勇气深思熟虑，而这样的人寥寥无几。

areas where this is more important than privacy if we accept as normal and unavoidable that everything in our lives can be aggregated sold or even leaked in the event of a

如果我们接受生活中的一切信息都可能被聚合、出售，甚至在发生……时泄露，这已成为常态且不可避免，那么在这些领域，安全的重要性便超过了隐私。

hack then we lose so much more than data we lose the freedom to be human think about what's at stake everything you write everything you say every topic of curiosity every

一旦遭到黑客攻击，我们失去的将远不止数据——我们将失去作为人的自由。请思考这其中的利害关系：你写下的每一句话、说过的每一个字、以及所有引发好奇的话题，都岌岌可危。

stray thought every impulsive purchase every moment of frustration or weakness every gripe or complaint every secret shared in confidence in a world without digital privacy even if you have done nothing

每一个偶然的念头、每一次冲动的消费、每一刻的沮丧或软弱、每一句抱怨，以及在缺乏数字隐私的世界里分享的任何秘密，哪怕你什么都没做错。

wrong other than think differently you begin to censor审查 yourself not entirely at first just a little bit by bit to risk less to hope less to imagine less to dare less

除了思考方式不同之外，如果你开始审查自己，起初并不完全，只是一点一点地：为了少冒点险、少抱点希望、少想象点东西、少敢做点事。

to create less to try less to talk less to think less the chilling effect of digital surveillance is profound and it touches everything what a small unimaginative world we would end

去创造更少、尝试更少、说话更少、思考更少。数字监控的寒蝉效应是深远的，它触及一切。我们将最终陷入一个多么渺小且缺乏想象力的世界啊。

up with not entirely at first just a little bit by bit ironically讽刺地 it's the kind of environment that would have stopped Silicon Valley before it ever gotten started we deserve better

一点点地，讽刺的是，这种环境在硅谷起步之前就会扼杀它。我们值得更好的。

you deserve better if we believe that freedom means an environment where great ideas can take root where they can grow and be nurtured培养 without fear of irrational restrictions or burdens then

如果我们相信自由意味着一个伟大的思想能够生根发芽、茁壮成长的环境，不受无理限制或负担的恐惧干扰，那么……