| Larry Ellison是否真的在Yale演講?——NO |
| 送交者: abot 2005年07月07日11:18:47 於 [教育學術] 發送悄悄話 |
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2000年流傳在網上的所謂“Larry Ellison在耶魯畢業典禮上的演講”雖然有趣,但非真實。那年,Larry根本沒在耶魯。下面就是相關的說明。 http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blellison.htm Larry Ellison's Speech to Yale Class of 2000 An email text circulating since June 2000 purports to contain a commencement address given by Oracle's flamboyant CEO, Larry Ellison, to Yale's Class of 2000. Here's a snippet of that alleged speech: As I look out before me today, I don't see a thousand hopes for a bright tomorrow. I don't see a thousand future leaders in a thousand industries. I see a thousand losers. What can you expect? Loser. Loserhood. Loser cum laude.... The speech goes on in that vein before closing abruptly with Ellison chiding the bodyguards who are supposedly dragging him off the stage. Is this true? It's truly funny, but it's not factual. Larry Ellison was not at Yale University's graduation ceremony in May 2000. There was no guest speaker there in fact. There was a keynote speaker, however, and that was journalist Bob Woodward, who graduated from Yale in 1965, and is now well known for his Watergate Scandal reporting for the Washington Post. And not even he said any of the things in the missive above. The material in question is simply a funny that made its first appearance on the SatireWire Website. A friend of a friend of somebody's friend, and possibly several such somebodies, then copied and pasted the text from the SatireWire web page into email, without providing proper attribution as to either the article's copyrighted source, or its author, Andrew Marlatt. But it's out there in suggestive email forwards for all the world to guffaw at and ask about, from now until kingdom come. These things just happen. – Peter Kohler
"耶魯的畢業生們,我很抱歉---如果你們不喜歡這樣的開場。我想請你們為我做一件事。請你---好好看一看周圍,看一看站在你左邊的同學,看一看站在你右邊的同學。請你設想這樣的情況:從現在起5年之後,10年之後,或30年之後,今天站在你左邊的這個人會是一個失敗者;右邊的這個人,同樣,也是個失敗者。而你,站在中間的傢伙,你以為會怎樣?一樣是失敗者。失敗的經歷。失敗的優等生。
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