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Unleashing the Power of Creativity

I've always been an optimist and I suppose that is rooted in my belief that the power of creativity and intelligence can make the world a better place.

For as long as I can remember, I've 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.

When my friend Paul Allen and I started Microsoft 30 years ago, we had a vision of “a computer 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.

And after 30 years, I'm still as inspired by computers as I was back in seventh grade.

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 smartest people couldn't solve on their own. Computers have transformed how we learn, giving kids everywhere a window into all of the world's knowledge. They're 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.

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 makes me “tap-dance to work” is when we show people something new, like a computer that can recognize your handwriting or your speech, or one that can store a lifetime's worth of photos, and they say, “I didn't know you could do that with a PC!”

But for all the cool things that a person can do with a PC, there are lots of other ways we can put our creativity and intelligence to work to improve our world. There are still far too many people in the world whose most basic needs go unmet. Every year, for example, millions of people die from diseases that are easy to prevent or treat in the developed world.

I believe that my own good fortune brings with it a responsibility to give back to the world. My wife, Melinda, and I have committed to improving health and education in a way that can help as many people as possible.

As a father, I believe that the death of a child in Africa is no less poignant or tragic than the death of a child anywhere else. And that it doesn't take much to make an immense difference in these children's lives.

I'm still very much an optimist, and I believe that progress on even the world's toughest problems is possible— and it's happening every day. We're seeing new drugs for deadly diseases, new diagnostic tools, and new attention paid to the health problems in the developing world.

I'm excited by the possibilities I see for medicine, for education and, of course, for technology. And I believe that through our natural inventiveness, creativity and willingness to solve tough problems, we're going to make some amazing achievements in all these areas in my lifetime.

释放你的创造力

我一辈子都是个乐观主义者，我想那是源于我的一个信念——创造力与智慧的力量能让世界更美好。

从记事时起，我就喜欢学习新事物和解决问题。因此当我七年级第一次坐在电脑前时，我的“魂”就被勾走了。那还只是一部沉闷的老式电传打字机，功能和我们现在使用的电脑简直没法儿比，但是，它却改变了我的生活。

30年前，当我和朋友保尔·艾伦开创微软之时，我们就梦想着“每家每户每张桌”上都能摆上电脑。这听起来有点过于乐观，因为那时候多数电子计算机与电冰箱一般大小。但我们相信，个人电脑终将改变世界。现在事实正是如此。

30年后，我依然备受电脑的启发，就像回到当时读七年级时一样。

我相信电脑是用来满足我们好奇心、发挥我们创造力的最好工具——它能帮助我们解决那些甚至是最聪明的人都无法单独解决的问题。电脑不但改变了我们学习的方式，为各地的孩子们提供了一扇获取知识的窗口；还帮助我们“物以类聚”，并能和对自己至关重要的人保持紧密联系，不论他们在何处。

像我的朋友沃伦·布菲那样，我感到特别幸运，因为每天能做自己喜欢的事。他称之为“跳着踢踏舞工作”。我在微软工作的挑战性一往如昔，但每每让我能“跳着踢踏舞工作”的是，当我们向人们展示新东西（比如能识别笔迹和语音的电脑，或者能储存值得一生珍藏的照片的电脑）时，他们会说：“我不知道你还能用电脑做到这些！”

利用个人电脑能做很酷的事情，我们还有很多其他的方式，将创造力和智慧用于改善世界。世界上仍有无数人连最基本的生活需求都无法满足。比如每年，有数百万人因疾病死亡，而这些疾病在发达国家是极其容易防治或治疗的。

我相信我自身的好运与回报世界的责任相生相伴。我的妻子梅琳达和我曾经承诺以某种方式来改善世界健康与教育的状况，以便尽可能帮助更多的人。

作为一名父亲我相信，非洲每个孩子的死亡和其他任何地方孩子的死亡一样令人深感痛苦与不幸。而要让这些孩子们的生活发生巨大的改变也并非难事。

我仍然非常乐观，相信即使是世界最棘手的难题也能取得进展——事实上这种进展每天都在发生。我们目睹治疗致命疾病的新药、新的诊断工具层出不穷，发展中国家健康问题得到新的关注。

我很激动地看到医学、教育方面，当然还有科技方面的美好未来，我相信凭着我们天生的发明创造之能力及积极解决难题的精神，在我的有生之年，我们将在这些领域内获得杰出的成就。

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