宝玉挨打人物形象分析:风靡全美的最后一次演讲（ 一）

Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture:

Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

如何让童年的梦想成真

Given at Carnegie Mellon University

September 18, 2007

It’s wonderful to be here. What Indira didn’t tell you is that this lecture series used to
be called the Last Lecture. If you had one last lecture to give before you died, what
would it be? I thought, damn, I finally nailed the venue and they renamed it.
[laughter]
能在这里真太棒了。英迪拉没告诉你们的是，这个系列讲座以前被称为“最后的讲演”。意
思是如果你死前最后做一次演讲，你会讲什么？我想，得，这我可对上号了，但他们又改名
了（旅程系列讲演）。 [笑声]
So, you know, in case there’s anybody who wandered in and doesn’t know the
back story, my dad always taught me that when there’s an elephant in the room,
introduce them. If you look at my CAT scans, there are approximately 10 tumors in
my liver, and the doctors told me 3-6 months of good health left. That was a month
ago, so you can do the math. I have some of the best doctors in the world.
Microphone’s not working? Then I’ll just have to talk louder. [Adjusts mic] Is that
good? All right.
所以，如果有人只是随便进来而不知道背景故事的话，我父亲总是教导我说，当房间里有大
象时，先介绍清楚（房间里的大象这个英语成语是指有一件事大家不可能视而不见，但又
不愿谈及,译者注）。如果你看看我的电脑断层扫描，我的肝脏大约有10 个肿瘤，医生告诉我
还有3-6 个月的健康身体。这是一个月前，所以你可以算一算。我有一些世界上最好的医
生。麦克风不响？那就得说话大声点。 [调整麦克风]好了吗？行。
So that is what it is. We can’t change it, and we just have to decide how we’re
going to respond to that. We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we
play the hand. If I don’t seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to
disappoint you. [laughter] And I assure you I am not in denial. It’s not like I’m not
aware of what’s going on. My family, my three kids, my wife, we just decamped.
We bought a lovely house in Chesapeake, Virginia, near Norfolk, and we’re doing
that because that’s a better place for the family to be, down the road. And the
other thing is I am in phenomenally good health right now. I mean it’s the greatest
thing of cognitive dissonance you will ever see is the fact that I am in really good
shape. In fact, I am in better shape than most of you. [Randy gets on the ground
and starts doing pushups] [Applause] So anybody who wants to cry or pity me can
down and do a few of those, and then you may pity me. [laughter]
情况就是这样。我们无法改变它，我们只需要决定如何回应。我们不能改变我们手里的牌，
但能调整如何出牌。如果我看起来不够忧郁郁闷，抱歉让你们失望了。 [笑] 我向你们保
证，我不是否认现实。不是我不知道正在发生的事。我的家人，我的三个孩子，我的太太，
我们刚刚撤营。我们在切萨皮克，弗吉尼亚州诺福克附近，买了一个可爱的房子。我们这么
做是为我们家的未来打算，那里较好。另一件事是我现在身体惊人的健康。我的意思是这将
是你所见到的最大的认知失调，我的体力非常好。事实上，我比你们大部分人的体力都好。
[兰迪趴下开始做俯卧撑] [掌声] 所以有人想要哭或可怜我，可以下来先做几个这个，然后你
们可以可怜我。 [笑声]
All right, so what we’re not talking about today, we are not talking about cancer,
because I spent a lot of time talking about that and I’m really not interested. If you
have any herbal supplements or remedies, please stay away from me. [laughter]
And we’re not going to talk about things that are even more important than
achieving your childhood dreams. We’re not going to talk about my wife, we’re not
talking about my kids. Because I’m good, but I’m not good enough to talk about
that without tearing up. So, we’re just going to take that off the table. That’s much
more important. And we’re not going to talk about spirituality and religion, although
I will tell you that I have achieved a deathbed conversion. I just bought a
Macintosh. [laughter and clapping] Now I knew I’d get 9% of the audience with
that, but. All right, so what is today’s talk about then? It’s about my childhood
dreams and how I have achieved them. I’ve been very fortunate that way. How I
believe I’ve been able to enable the dreams of others, and to some degree, lessons
learned. I’m a professor, there should be some lessons learned and how you can
use the stuff you here today to achieve your dreams or enable the dreams of others.
And as you get older, you may find that enabling the dreams of others thing is even
more fun.
好，那么今天我们不谈什么呢，我们不谈癌症，因为我已花了很多时间谈它，我真的没兴趣
了。如果您有任何辅助草药或疗法，请别过来。 [笑声]我们也不会谈比实现童年梦想更重要
的事。我们不谈我的妻子，我们不谈我的孩子。因为我心情不错，但我没好到谈起他们而不
落泪。所以，这是更重要我们只好不提。我们不谈精神与宗教，但我要告诉你们，我已做了
一个临终转变。我刚刚买了台苹果电脑。 [笑声及掌声] 我知道我这样做可得到9％的听众的
支持。但今天到底谈什么呢？谈我童年的梦想和我如何实现他们。我在这方面一直很幸运。
谈为什么我相信我能够助人梦想成真，也讲一些经验教训。我是一个教授，应该有一些经验
教训，以及如何你可以用你今天听到的东西去实现你的梦想，或者助人实现梦想。当你年长
些，你可能会发现，助人梦想成真会更有乐趣。
So what were my childhood dreams? Well, you know, I had a really good
childhood. I mean, no kidding around. I was going back through the family
archives, and what was really amazing was, I couldn’t find any pictures of me as a
kid where I wasn’t smiling. And that was just a very gratifying thing. There was our
dog, right? Aww, thank you. And there I actually have a picture of me dreaming.
And did a lot of that. You know, there’s a lot of wake up’s! I was born in 1960.
When you are 8 or 9 years old and you look at the TV set, men are landing on the
moon. Anything’s possible, and that’s something we should not lose sight of, is that
the inspiration and the permission to dream is huge.
那么什么是我童年的梦想？你知道，我有一个非常好的童年。我的意思是，不开玩笑，我回
去看家里的文档，令人惊奇的是竟找不到任何一张我小时候不笑的照片。这可是一件非常可
喜的事。这是我们家的狗，对不对？ 噢，谢谢。这有一张我做梦的照片。我做了很多的梦。
当然，也有很多梦醒时分！我出生在1960 年。在8、9 岁时，电视上正播放人类登月。任何
事情都可能发生，我们不要忽略灵感和允许梦想的巨大力量。
So what were my childhood dreams? You may not agree with this list, but I was
there. [laughter] Being in zero gravity, playing in the National Football League,
authoring an article in the World Book Encyclopedia – I guess you can tell the nerds
early. [laughter] Being Captain Kirk, anybody here have that childhood dream?
Not at CMU, no. I wanted to become one of the guys who won the big stuffed
animals in the amusement park, and I wanted to be an Imagineer with Disney.
These are not sorted in any particular order, although I think they do get harder,
except for maybe the first one.
那么，我的童年梦想？你可能不同意这个列表，但那曾是我的梦想。 [笑] 体验零重力，参
加全美橄榄球联盟，给世界图书百科全书出一篇文章-我猜你可以看出我很早就是书呆子了。
[笑]当柯克船长，在这里有谁有这个童年梦想吗？不会在卡耐基-梅隆大学，没有。我想我能
成为一个在游乐园赢得大毛绒玩具动物的人，我也想成为一个迪士尼幻想工程师。这个单子
并不按任何特定顺序排练，但我觉得他们越来越困难，可能除了第一项以外。
OK, so being in zero gravity. Now it’s important to have specific dreams. I did not
dream of being an astronaut, because when I was a little kid, I wore glasses and
they told me oh, astronauts can’t have glasses. And I was like, mmm, I didn’t really
want the whole astronaut gig, I just wanted the floating. So, and as a child
[laughter], prototype 0.0. [slide shown of Randy as a child lying in floating-formation
on a table top]
好，体验零重力。有具体的梦想很重要。我没有梦想成为一个航天员，因为我从小就戴眼
镜。他们告诉我，哦，宇航员不能戴眼镜。我想，嗯，我并不真的当宇航员，我只是想自由
飘浮。因此，作为一个孩子[笑] ，原型0.0 。[幻灯片显示小兰迪躺在台面上作漂浮状]
But that didn’t work so well, and it turns out that NASA has something called the
Vomit Comet that they used to train the astronauts. And this thing does parabolic
arcs, and at the top of each arc you get about 25 seconds where you’re ballistic
and you get about, a rough equivalent of weightlessness for about 25 seconds. And
there is a program where college students can submit proposals and if they win the
competition, they get to fly. And I thought that was really cool, and we had a team
and we put a team together and they won and they got to fly. And I was all
excited because I was going to go with them.
但那并不怎么管用。我们知道美国航天局有一种用来训练宇航员的飞机叫做“呕吐彗
星”。它以抛弧线飞行，在每个弧顶后有大约25 秒的时间是如弹道俯冲，大致相当于失重
25 秒。航天局有一个项目让大学生可以比赛提出研究建议，如果他们赢了，他们就能上去
飞。我觉得那很酷，我们有一个团队，我们把它组织好我。他们 赢了竞赛，获准去飞。我
好兴奋，因为我要跟他们一起去。
And then I hit the first brick wall, because they made it very clear that under no
circumstances were faculty members allowed to fly with the teams. I know, I was
heartbroken. I was like, I worked so hard! And so I read the literature very carefully
and it turns out that NASA, it’s part of their outreach and publicity program, and it
turns out that the students were allowed to bring a local media journalist from their
home town. [laughter] And, Randy Pausch, web journalist. It’s really easy to get a
press pass! [laughter]
然后，我碰上了第一道砖墙，因为航天局明文规定教员不能跟学生团队一起飞。我可是伤心
透顶。我想，我投入了那么多心血！所以，我仔细读了文件，原来航天局有一个推广宣传项
目，允许学生从他们家乡带一名当地媒体的记者。 [笑] ，兰迪.波许，网站记者。得到新闻通
行证可真容易！ [笑]
So I called up the guys at NASA and I said, I need to know where to fax some
documents. And they said, what documents are you going to fax us? And I said my
resignation as the faculty advisor and my application as the journalist. And he said,
that’s a little transparent, don’t you think? And I said, yeah, but our project is virtual
reality, and we’re going to bring down a whole bunch of VR headsets and all the
students from all the teams are going to experience it and all those other real
journalists are going to get to film it.
于是我就打电话给美国宇航局说，我需要知道传真文件的号码。那边问，你要传真什么文
件？我说我要辞去学校顾问头衔，申请做记者。他说，你不觉得这有点太露骨了吗？我说，
没错，但我们的项目是虚拟现实，我们将带去一大堆虚拟现实头盔，所有队伍的学生都将试
用这个，这样一来，那些随其他队去的真记者就会把它拍下来。
Jim Foley’s going oh you bastard, yes. And the guy said, here’s the fax number. So,
and indeed, we kept our end of the bargain, and that’s one of the themes that
you’ll hear later on in the talk, is have something to bring to the table, right, because
that will make you more welcome. And if you’re curious about what zero gravity
looks like, hopefully the sound will be working here. [slide shows videotape from
Randy’s zero gravity experience] There I am. [laughter] You do pay the piper at the
bottom. [laugher] So, childhood dream number one, check.
吉姆.佛勒在说，你这个混球。接电话的人说，这是传真号码。而事实上我们也实践了我们的
诺言，这是你们等会儿会在讲座中听到的主题之一，就是手上要有货， 这样你你就会更受欢
迎。如果你好奇零重力是什么样子，希望声响没有问题。 [幻灯片，录影带，兰迪的零重力体
验] 这是我。 [笑] 你最后还是要在底部承担后果。 [众笑] ，所以，童年的一号梦想，画钩。
OK, let’s talk about football. My dream was to play in the National Football League.
And most of you don’t know that I actually – no. [laughter] No, I did not make it to
the National Football League, but I probably got more from that dream and not
accomplishing it than I got from any of the ones that I did accomplish.
好吧，让我们谈谈橄榄球。我的梦想是要参加全国橄榄球联盟。你们大部分人不知道我实际
上，不 [笑]没有，我没能参加向全美橄榄球联盟。但我从这未实现的梦想中得到的恐怕比我
任一实现的梦想中得到的还要多。
I had a coach, I signed up when I was nine years old. I was the smallest kid in the
league, by far. And I had a coach, Jim Graham, who was six-foot-four, he had
played linebacker at Penn State.
我有一个教练。我入队时9 岁。我是俱乐部中最小的孩子。我有一个教练，吉姆格雷厄姆，
六英尺四高，他曾在宾夕法尼亚州立大学打线卫。
He was just this hulk of a guy and he was old school. And I mean really old school.
Like he thought the forward pass was a trick play. [laughter] And he showed up for
practice the first day, and you know, there’s big hulking guy, we were all scared to
death of him.
他是个很传统的大块头。我的意思是非常古董。像他认位前传球是使诈。 [笑] ，第一天练习
他来了，你知道，他块头很大, 我们都怕死他了。
And he hadn’t brought any footballs. How are we going to have practice without
any footballs? And one of the other kids said, excuse me coach, but there’s not
football. And Coach Graham said, right, how many men are on a football field at a
time? Eleven on a team, twenty-two. Coach Graham said, all right, and how many
people are touching the football at any given time? One of them. And he said,
right, so we’re going to work on what those other twenty-one guys are doing.
他并没有带来任何橄榄球。我们没球怎么练呢？有个小孩子就说，对不起, 教练， 但我们没
球。教练格雷厄姆说，就是，球场上能上多少人? 11 人一队， 22 人 。教练格雷厄姆说，
好，那在一给定时刻有几个人触球? 其中之一。他说，对，所以我们要练其他21 个人的任
务。
And that’s a really good story because it’s all about fundamentals. Fundamentals,
fundamentals, fundamentals. You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because
otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.
这是一个很好的故事，因为它讲的是基本功。基本功，基本功，基本功。你必须把基础打好,
要不然那些花俏的东西就玩不转。
And the other Jim Graham story I have is there was one practice where he just rode
me all practice. You’re doing this wrong, you’re doing this wrong, go back and do it
again, you owe me, you’re doing push-ups after practice. And when it was all over,
one of the other assistant coaches came over and said, yeah, Coach Graham rode
you pretty harsh, didn’t he? I said, yeah. He said, that’s a good thing. He said,
when you’re screwing up and nobody’s saying anything to you anymore, that
means they gave up. And that’s a lesson that stuck with me my whole life. Is that
when you see yourself doing something badly and nobody’s bothering to tell you
anymore, that’s a very bad place to be. Your critics are your ones telling you they
still love you and care.
另一个吉姆格雷厄姆故事。 有一次我们做练习，他盯着我不依不饶，你这样做不对，你这样
做不对，回去再做一遍，你欠我，你练习后还要加做俯卧撑。过后一位助理教练过来说，教
练格雷厄姆对你挺苛刻，是不是？我说，是啊。他说，这是件好事。他说，当你搞砸了而没
有人对你说任何东西，这意味着他们放弃了。这是一终生铭记的一堂课。就是当你看到自己
把事情搞糟而没人劳神告诉你，这处境就很不妙。批评你的人是告诉你他们仍然爱和关心
你。
After Coach Graham, I had another coach, Coach Setliff, and he taught me a lot
about the power of enthusiasm. He did this one thing where only for one play at a
time he would put people in at like the most horrifically wrong position for them. Like
all the short guys would become receivers, right? It was just laughable. But we only
went in for one play, right? And boy, the other team just never knew what hit ‘em
them. Because when you’re only doing it for one play and you’re just not where
you’re supposed to be, and freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose, boy
are you going to clean somebody’s clock for that one play.
经过教练格雷厄姆，我的另一个教练，教练赛特利夫，教我了很多关于的激情的力量。他会
把选手在某一场比赛中安排在最不恰当的位置。就象让所有矮个儿都当外接手，对吧？那真
是可笑。但是，我们只打一场比赛，对吗？我们的对手真是措手不及。因为当你只在一场比
赛中打一个新位置，自由就是无所顾忌的同义词，天啊，那你还不在那一场比赛中痛扁对
手。
And that kind of enthusiasm was great. And to this day, I am most comfortable on a
football field. I mean, it’s just one of those things where, you know, [pulls out a
football] if I’m working a hard problem, people will see me wandering the halls with
one of these things, and that’s just because, you know, when you do something
young enough and you train for it, it just becomes a part of it. And I’m very glad
that football was a part of my life. And if I didn’t get the dream of playing in the
NFL, that’s OK. I’ve probably got stuff more valuable. Because looking at what’s
going on in the NFL, I’m not sure those guys are doing so great right now.
那种热情真是强烈。直到今天，我感到最惬意的地方还是在橄榄球球场。我的意思是，它只
是一个人的东西在那里，你知道， [拿出一个橄榄球]如果我在解决一个难题，人们就会看到
我走廊里拿个橄榄球走来走去。因为你知道，当你很年轻时就打球，训练，橄榄球就成为你
生活的一部分。我很高兴它是我生命的一部分。如果我没有实现梦想中玩橄榄球，那也没什
么。我现在得到的东西可能更有价值。因为看看现在全美橄榄球联盟，我觉得那些家伙过得
有多好。
OK, and so one of the expressions I learned at Electronic Arts, which I love, which
pertains to this, is experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.
And I think that’s absolutely lovely. And the other thing about football is we send
our kids out to play football or soccer or swimming or whatever it is, and it’s the first
example of what I’m going to call a head fake, or indirect learning. We actually
don’t want our kids to learn football. I mean, yeah, it’s really nice that I have a
wonderful three-point stance and that I know how to do a chop block and all this
kind of stuff. But we send our kids out to learn much more important things.
Teamwork, sportsmanship, perseverance, etcetera, etcetera. And these kinds of
head fake learning are absolutely important. And you should keep your eye out for
them because they’re everywhere.
好，那么我从艺电公司学到了的一个说法，我很喜欢，也跟今天的谈话相关，就是经验是你
求之不得后的收获。我认为这说法绝对可爱。再谈一点关于橄榄球，我们把孩子送去玩橄榄
球或足球或游泳，或任何其它活动，这其实是我要称为障眼法或间接学习的第一个例子。事
实上，我们不在意我们的孩子学习足球。我的意思是，嗯，我的三点触地预备姿式很漂亮，
我知道该怎么做膝下阻挡和其它技能。这都不错，但是，我们把孩子送去是学更重要的东
西。团队合作，体育精神，毅力，等等，等等。而这些障眼法学习是绝对重要的。你应该留
意这些，因为它们无所不在。

All right. A simple one, being an author in the World Book Encyclopedia. When I

was a kid, we had the World Book Encyclopedia on the shelf. For the freshman, this

is paper. [laughter] We used to have these things called books. And after I had

become somewhat of an authority on virtual reality, but not like a really important

one, so I was at the level of people the World Book would badger. They called me

up and I wrote an article, and this is Caitlin Kelleher [shows slide of Caitlin wearing VR

headset manipulating a 3D world], and there’s an article if you go to your local

library where they still have copies of the World Book. Look under V for Virtual

Reality, and there it is. And all I have to say is that having been selected to be an

author in the World Book Encyclopedia, I now believe that Wikipedia is a perfectly

fine source for your information because I know what the quality control is for real

encyclopedias. They let me in.

下一个简单，但世界图书百科全书的作者。当我还是个孩子，我们书架上有全套世界图书百

科全书。对大一学生来说，这只是纸而已。[笑声] 我们曾把这些东西叫做书。当我已经有点

成为虚拟现实的权威的，但并非真正重要的一个，所以我正好在世界图书要骚扰的人的水平

上。他们给我打电话，叫我写一篇文章，这是凯特琳.凯乐荷 [凯特琳戴耳机操纵三维世界幻

灯] ，如果你当地的图书馆还收藏这百科全书的话，你可以看到这篇文章，看V 字母下面的虚

拟现实词条，它就在那里。我所要说的是被选为世界图书百科全书的作者后，我现在相信维

基百科是一个绝对优良的资讯来源，因为我知道真正的百科全书质量控制水平了。他们让我

去写。

All right, next one. [laughter] [shows slide “Being like Meeting Captain Kirk”] At a

certain point you just realize there are some things you are not going to do, so

maybe you just want to stand close to the people. And I mean, my god, what a

role model for young people. [laughter] [shows slide of Captain Kirk sitting at his

control station on the Starship Enterprise]

好，下一个。[笑] [幻灯显示"成为会见柯克船长" ] 有时侯你会认识到有些事你不会去做， 所

以你也许只想接近那些做这些事的人。我的意思是，天啊，真是年轻人的楷模。 [笑] [放柯克

船长坐在他星舰企业号控制站的幻灯]

I mean, this is everything you want to be, and what I learned that carried me

forward in leadership later is that, you know, he wasn’t the smartest guy on the ship.

I mean, Spock was pretty smart and McCoy was the doctor and Scotty was the

engineer. And you sort of go, and what skill set did he have to get on this damn

thing and run it?

我的意思是，这是你要的一切，我所学到的并帮助我提升领导能力的是，其实，他不是飞船

上最聪明的人。我的意思是，斯波克相当聪明，麦科伊是医生，斯科特是工程师。你就想，

他有什么能耐就在这飞船上当船长？

And, you know, clearly there is this skill set called leadership, and, you know,

whether or not you like the series, there’s no doubt that there was a lot to be

learned about how to lead people by watching this guy in action. And he just had

the coolest damn toys! [laughter] [shows slide of Star Trek gadgets] I mean, my god,

I just thought it was fascinating as a kid that he had this thing [Takes out Star Trek

Communicator] and he could talk to the ship with it. I just thought that was just

spectacular, and of course now I own one and it’s smaller. [takes out cell phone] So

that’s kind of cool.

但你知道，很显然有种能耐叫领导能力，而且，不管你喜欢这个电视系列与否，你可以从观

察他的行动中学到很多如何领导别人。另外，他还有最酷的玩具！ [笑] [放星际迷航小玩具的

幻灯] 我的意思是，天啊，我小时候为他有这玩意儿而着迷[拿出星际迷航报话机]他可以用它

跟飞船通话。我觉得那可真抢眼，当然现在我自己有一个，尺寸还小些。 [拿出手机] 这个挺

酷。

So I got to achieve this dream. James T. Kirk, and his alter ego William Shatner,

wrote a book, which I think was actually a pretty cool book. It was with Chip Walter

who is a Pittsburgh- based author who is quite good, and they wrote a book on

basically the science of Star Trek, you know, what has come true. And they went

around to the top places around the country and looked at various things and they

came here to study our virtual reality setup. And so we build a virtual reality for him,

it looks something like that. [shows slide of virtual Star Trek command center] We put

it in, put it to red alert. He was a very good sport. It’s not like he saw that one

coming. [laughter] And it’s really cool to meet your boyhood idol, but it’s even

cooler when he comes to you to see what cool stuff you’re doing in your lab. And

that was just a great moment.

最终我实现了这个梦想。柯克船长和他的本尊威廉.夏特纳，写了一本书，我认为这是一本很

酷的书。与CHIP 沃尔特，一个在匹兹堡的挺好的作者，合写的。他们的书，基本上关于星际

迷航的科学，就是，电视中的科幻有那些变成现实了。他们去全国各处最高学府访问参观，

他们来这里研究我们虚拟现实的设置。我们为他建了一个虚拟现实系统，它看起来就像这

样。 [放显示星际迷航指挥中心幻灯] 我们把系统放到红色警报。他是一个非常有趣的人。他

可没预见到这个。 [笑] 遇见你儿时的偶像是很酷，但他来你的实验室看你做的精彩工作就更

酷。而这真是一个让我得意的时刻。

All right, winning stuffed animals. This may seem mundane to you, but when you’re

a little kid and you see the big buff guys walking around the amusement park and

they got all these big stuffed animals, right? And this is my lovely wife, and I have a

lot of pictures of stuffed animals I’ve won. [laughter] [shows slides of several large

stuffed animals] That’s my dad posing with one that I won. I’ve won a lot of these

animals. There’s my dad, he did win that one to his credit. And this was just a big

part of my life and my family’s life. But you know, I can hear the cynics. In this age

of digitally manipulated things, maybe those bears really aren’t in the pictures with

me, or maybe I paid somebody five bucks to take a picture in the theme park next

to the bear. And I said, how, in this age of cynicism can I convince people? And I

said, I know, I can show them the bears! Bring them out. [several large stuffed

animals are brought onto the stage] [laughter and clapping] Just put them back

against the wall.

赢得玩具毛绒动物。这对你们可能看起来很平常，可当你是一个小孩子，你会看到大壮汉们

在游乐园走来走去，拿着那些大毛绒动物，对不对？这是我可爱的妻子，我有很多我赢的毛

绒动物的照片。 [笑] [放几个大毛绒动物的幻灯]就是我的爸爸跟我赢的毛绒动物的合影，我

赢过很多。这还有我爸爸，他的确赢了这个。这些是我和我家生活的一个重要部分。但你知

道，我能听到玩事不恭的人怀疑“在这个数码技术操控现实的时代，也许那些相片中玩具熊

并没有真的和我在一起，也许我付了某人五块钱在主题公园的玩具熊旁照相”。我想，如何

在这个犬儒主义的时代，使人信服？我说，我知道，我可以让他们看见那些熊！带出来。 [舞

台上搬来几个大毛绒动物] [笑声及掌声] 就把它们靠着墙放。

Jai Pausch (Randy’s wife):

洁.波许(兰迪的夫人)：

It’s hard to hear you. [adjusts Randy’s microphone]

很难听到你的声音。[调整兰迪的麦克风]

Randy Pausch:

Thanks honey. [laughter] So here are some bears. We didn’t have quite enough

room in the moving truck down to Chesapeake, and anybody who would like a little

piece of me at the end of this, feel free to come up, first come first served.

谢谢，亲爱的。 [笑] 我们的搬家卡车没有足够的空间把这些熊载到至切萨皮克，所以要有人

在演讲结束时想要我生命的一部分，请自便上来拿，先到先得。

All right, my next one. Being an Imagineer. This was the hard one. Believe me,

getting to zero gravity is easier than becoming an Imagineer. When I was a kid, I

was eight years old and our family took a trip cross-country to see Disneyland. And if

you’ve ever seen the movie National Lampoon’s Vacation, it was a lot like that!

[laughter] It was a quest. [shows slides of family at Disneyland] And these are real

vintage photographs, and there I am in front of the castle. And there I am, and for

those of you who are into foreshadowing, this is the Alice ride. [laughter] And I just

thought this was just the coolest coolest environment I had ever been in, and

instead of saying, gee, I want to experience this, I said, I want to make stuff like this.

好，下一个，做迪士尼幻想工程师。这个很难。相信我，去体验零重力比做迪士尼幻想工程

师容易 。我小时候，8 岁时家人带我横跨美国去迪士尼乐园玩。如果你看电影“假期历险

记”，跟哪个很像！ [笑]那是一次远征。 [放全家在迪士尼的幻灯] 这些都是好老的照片，这

有我在城堡前面照的。还有，对在座的爱讲先兆的人，这是爱丽丝飞车。[笑] 我想这是我所

呆过的最酷最酷的地方了。但我不是说，哎呀，我想体验这个，我说，我要造这些东西。

And so I bided time and then I graduated with my Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon,

thinking that meant me infinitely qualified to do anything. And I dashed off my

letters of applications to Walt Disney Imagineering, and they sent me some of the

damned nicest go-to-hell letters I have ever gotten. [laughter] I mean it was just, we

have carefully reviewed your application and presently we do not have any

positions available which require your particular qualifications.

所以我十年寒窗，由卡内基梅隆大学博士毕业，以为我的有资格干任何工作。我匆匆忙忙的

给迪士尼幻想工程寄去申请信，他们给我一些我所受到的最超级友好的“见鬼去”式的回

信。[笑]信是这样一来的，我们已经仔细审查了你的申请，目前我们没有任何需要你特定资历

的职位。

Now think about the fact that you’re getting this from a place that’s famous for guys

who sweep the street. [laughter] So that was a bit of a setback. But remember, the

brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The

brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.

Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly

enough. They’re there to stop the other people.

现在想想你是从个以扫大街的人闻名的地方得到这些回绝信。 [笑] ，所以这是有点挫折。但

请记住，砖墙在那里是有原因的。砖墙不是要挡住我们。砖墙是要给我们机会说明我们有多

迫切的想得到。因为砖墙是要阻挡那些不诚心的人，那些其他人。

All right, fast forward to 1991. We did a system back at the University of Virginia

called Virtual Reality on Five Dollars a Day. Just one of those unbelievable

spectacular things. I was so scared back in those days as a junior academic. Jim

Foley’s here, and I just love to tell this story. He knew my undergraduate advisor,

Andy Van Dam, and I’m at my first conference and I’m just scared to death. And

this icon in the user interface community walks up to me and just out of nowhere just

gives me this huge bear hug and he says, that was from Andy. And that was when I

thought, ok, maybe I can make it. Maybe I do belong.

好，快进到1991 年。我们早在维吉尼亚大学时做了个叫虚拟现实一天5 元的系统。只是那些

令人难以置信的精彩东西的其中之一。那时候作为一个资浅的教员，我非常战战兢兢。吉姆.

佛勒在这里，我很爱讲这个故事。他认识我的本科导师，安迪.凡丹，我在我的第一次学术会

议上，我怕得要死。这个用户界面圈的偶像走过来突然紧紧拥抱我说，这是来自安迪。自当

时我就想，好吧，也许我能够成功。也许我确实属于这一行。

And a similar story is that this was just this unbelievable hit because at the time,

everybody needed a half a million to do virtual reality. And everybody felt

frustrated. And we literally hacked together a system for about five thousand dollars

in parts and made a working VR system. And people were just like, oh my god, you

know, the Hewlett Packard garage thing. This is so awesome. And so in giving this

talk and the room has just gone wild, and during the Q and A, a guy named Tom

Furness, who was one of the big names in virtual reality at the time, he goes up to

the microphone and he introduces himself. I didn’t know what he looked like but I

sure as hell knew the name. And he asked a question. And I was like, I’m sorry did

you say you were Tom Furness? And he said yes. I said, then I would love to answer

your question, but first, will you have lunch with me tomorrow? [laughter] And there’s

a lot in that little moment, there’s a lot of humility but also asking a person where he

can’t possibly say no. [laughter]

另一个类似的故事是，我们的系统是超乎意想的成功，因为在那个时候，大家都需要50 万做

虚拟现实。大家都为此感到沮丧。而我们实际上用了5 千元部分的零件拼装了一套能用的系

统。人们的反应是，我的上帝，惠普车库的故事又重来了。令人震憾。因此，我做报告时屋

里都沸腾了，在其后的问答时间里，一个叫汤姆.弗奈斯的人走到麦克风前介绍了他自己，他

是虚拟现实界那时的大腕。我虽不认识他，但可是久闻大名。他接着问了一个问题。我说，

对不起，你说你是汤姆.弗奈斯？他说是的。我说，那么我很愿意回答你的问题，但首先，你

愿意明天一起跟我吃午饭吗？ [笑] ，这个小插曲寓意很深，这里面有很多谦卑，但也让那人

无法拒绝。 [笑]

And so Imagineering a couple of years later was working on a virtual reality project.

This was top secret. They were denying the existence of a virtual reality attraction

after the time that the publicity department was running the TV commercials. So

Imagineering really had nailed this one tight. And it was the Aladdin attraction

where you would fly a magic carpet, and the head mounted display, sometimes

known as gator vision. And so I had an in. As soon as the project had just, you know

they start running the TV commercials, and I had been asked to brief the Secretary

of Defense on the state of virtual reality. OK, Fred Brooks and I had been asked to

brief the Secretary of Defense, and that gave me an excuse. So I called them. I

called Imagineering and I said, look, I’m briefing the Secretary of Defense. I’d like

some materials on what you have because it’s one of the best VR systems in the

world. And they kind of pushed back. And I said, look, is all this patriotism stuff in the

parks a farce? And they’re like, hmm, ok. [laughter]

几年后迪士尼幻想工程在做一个绝密的虚拟现实项目。他们在宣传部门播了电视广告后，还

否认存在一个虚拟现实的景点。所以迪士尼幻想工程真是把保密工作做的滴水不漏。这就是

阿拉丁景点，在那里你可以飞魔毯，用头盔显示器，有时又称为短嘴鳄视像仪。那是我已不

是默默无闻。当项目刚，你知道，它们开始放电视广告，我被要求向国防部长介绍虚拟现实

的发展。嗯，是弗雷德布鲁克斯和我被要求做简报，这给了我一个借口。所以我打电话给他

们说，你看，我要给国防部长做简报。我想从你们那里拿些材料，因为你们的虚拟现实是世

界上最好的系统之一。他们有点不愿意。我说，你们看，你们整天在迪士尼乐园讲的爱国心

都是装样的吗？他们说“嗯，好吧。 [笑]

But they said this is so new the PR department doesn’t have any footage for you, so

I’m going to have to connect you straight through to the team who did the work.

Jackpot! So I find myself on the phone with a guy named Jon Snoddy who is one of

the most impressive guys I have ever met, and he was the guy running this team,

and it’s not surprising they had done impressive things. And so he sent me some

stuff, we talked briefly and he sent me some stuff, and I said, hey, I’m going to be

out in the area for a conference shortly, would you like to get together and have

lunch? Translation: I’m going to lie to you and say that I have an excuse to be in the

area so I don’t look to anxious, but I would go to Neptune to have lunch with you!

[laughter] And so Jon said sure, and I spent something like 80 hours talking with all

the VR experts in the world, saying if you had access to this one unbelievable

project, what would you ask? And then I compiled all of that and I had to

memorize it, which anybody that knows me knows that I have no memory at all,

because I couldn’t go in looking like a dweeb with, you know, [in dweeby voice] Hi,

Question 72.

但他们说这项目很新，公关处没有任何视频给你，所以我必须要直接和做这个系统的部门直

接联系。中大奖！所以，我就跟一个叫乔恩史诺地的人通电话，他是我曾见过人中最令人印

象深刻的家伙，也是这个部门的头，难怪他们做出的活也让人印象深刻。所以他送我一些东

西，我们短暂交谈，他送我一些东西，我就说，嘿，我不久要到你那里参加一个会议，你想

不想在一起吃午餐？翻译：我会撒谎找个借口说我要到你那里，这样显得我不是上赶着见

你，但即使你在海王星我也会去和你吃午饭！ [笑] 乔恩说，好啊。 然后我花了大约80 个小

时跟世界上所有虚拟现实的专家交谈，说如果你有机会访问这个令人难以置信的项目，您会

问什么问题？然后，我把他们所说的整理好，背熟。熟悉我的人都知道我记不住事。因为我

不能去像个呆子，你知道， [傻傻声音]嘿， 第72 个问题。

So, I went in, and this was like a two hour lunch, and Jon must have thought he was

talking to some phenomenal person, because all I was doing was channeling Fred

Brooks and Ivan Sutherland and Andy Van Dam and people like that. And Henry

Fuchs. So it’s pretty easy to be smart when you’re parroting smart people. And at

the end of the lunch with Jon, I sort of, as we say in the business, made “the ask.”

And I said, you know, I have a sabbatical coming up. And he said, what’s that?

[laughter] The beginnings of the culture clash. And so I talked with him about the

possibility of coming there and working with him. And he said, well that’s really

good except, you know, you’re in the business of telling people stuff and we’re in

the business of keeping secrets. And then what made Jon Snoddy Jon Snoddy was

he said, but we’ll work it out, which I really loved.

所以，我去了，这是个约两小时的午餐，乔恩一定以为我是个非比寻常的人，因为我所做的

就是当弗雷德布鲁克斯，伊凡.萨瑟兰，安迪.凡丹和亨利.福克斯等人的传声筒。所以你要跟聪

明人学舌就非常容易显得聪明。在午餐结束时，我就，像我们在商业界说的，投石问路" 。我

说，你知道，我要有一个学术假。他说，那是什么？ [笑]文化冲突的开端。所以，我跟他谈

到能否到他那里与他一道工作。他说，很好，只是，你知道，你这一行的工作是告诉别人的

东西，而我们这一行是保守机密。但乔恩史诺地就是乔恩史诺地，他接着说“但我们会想办

法解决”，我听了很高兴。

The other thing that I learned from Jon Snoddy – I could do easily an hour long talk

just on what have I learned from Jon Snoddy. One of the things he told me was that

wait long enough and people will surprise and impress you. He said, when you’re

pissed off at somebody and you’re angry at them, you just haven’t given them

enough time. Just give them a little more time and they’ll almost always impress

you. And that really stuck with me. I think he’s absolutely right on that one. So to

make a long story short, we negotiated a legal contract. It was going to be the first

– some people referred to it as the first and last paper ever published by

Imagineering.

另一点我从乔恩史诺地那里学到的 --我可以很容易地花一个小时谈我从乔恩史诺地那里学到

东西—是他告诉我，等足够长的时间，人们会让你惊讶，让你叹服。他说，当你对别人怨恼

愤怒时，你只是还没有给他们足够的时间。给他们多一点时间，他们将几乎总能让你叹服。

我觉得他说得真对。长话短说，我们达成了一项法律合同。迪士尼幻想工程将发表第一篇-有

些人说是第一篇和最后一篇—学术文章。

That the deal was I go, I provide my own funding, I go for six months, I work with a

project, we publish a paper. And then we meet our villain. [shows slide of a picture

of a former dean of Randy’s] I can’t be all sweetness and light, because I have no

credibility. Somebody’s head’s going to go on a stick. Turns out that the person

who gets his head on a stick is a dean back at the University of Virginia. His name is

not important. Let’s call him Dean Wermer. [laughter]

协议是是我去哪里，自己提供资金，干六个月，做个课题，发表一篇论文。然后我们上了坏

人。 [放兰迪的前院长的照片]，我不能全都和风细雨，那样我就没有信用了。要拿个人的首

级示众。这个人是我在维吉尼亚大学的院长。他的名字并不重要。让我们称他为沃莫院长 。

(沃莫院长为电影动物屋角色,译者注）[笑]

And Dean Wermer has a meeting with me where I say I want to do this sabbatical

thing and I’ve actually got the Imagineering guys to let an academic in, which is

insane. I mean if Jon hadn’t gone nuts, this would never have been a possibility.

This is a very secretive organization. And Dean Wermer looks at the paperwork and

he says, well it says they’re going to own your intellectual property. And I said, yeah,

we go the agreement to publish the paper. There is no other IP. I don’t do

patentable stuff. And says, yeah, but you might. And so deal’s off. Just go and get

them to change that little clause there and then come back to me.

沃莫院长跟我见面。我说我想要休学术假，幻想工程允许一个学术界的人参与，这可是闻所

未闻。我的意思是如果乔恩要是头脑清醒，这事就绝不可能。这是一个非常秘密的组织。沃

莫院长看着文件说，嗯，这上面说他们将拥有你的知识产权。我说，是啊，我们同意发表论

文。没有其他知识产权的问题。我也不申请专利。他说，没错，但你可能申请。所以这协议

不行。你去让他们改变这一小条，然后再找我。

I’m like, excuse me? And then I said to him, I want you to understand how

important this is. If we can’t work this out, I’m going to take an unpaid leave of

absence and I’m just going to go there and I’m going to do this thing. And he said,

hey, I might not even let you do that. I mean you’ve got the IP in your head already

and maybe they’re going to suck it out of you, so that’s not going to fly either.

[laughter] It’s very important to know when you’re in a pissing match. And it’s very

important to get out of it as quickly as possible.

我想，什么？然后我对他说，我希望你了解这有多重要。如果我们不能达成公识，，我会停

薪留职，我还是要去那里做这件事。他说，嘿，我连这都可能不允许。我是说你脑子里已经

有知识产权，而他们可能会把它挖出来，所以那样也不行。 [笑] 及早知道你在与人斗气非常

重要，同样重要的是尽快从中解脱。

So I said to him, well, let’s back off on this. Do we think this is a good idea at all? He
said, I have no idea if this is a good idea. I was like, OK, well we’ve got common
ground there. Then I said, well is this really your call? Isn’t this the call of the Dean of
Sponsored Research if it’s an IP issue? And he said, yeah, that’s true. I said, but so if
he’s happy you’re happy? [So he says] Yeah, then I’d be fine. Whoosh! Like Wile E.
Coyote [inaudible] And I find myself in Gene Block’s office, who is the most fantastic
man in the world. And I start talking to Gene Block and I say let’s start at the high
level, since I don’t want to have to back out again. So let’s start at the high level.
Do you think this is a good idea? He said, well if you’re asking me if it’s a good idea,
I don’t have very much information. All I know is that one of my star faculty
members is in my office and he’s really excited, so tell me more. Here’s a lesson for
everybody in administration. They both said the same thing. But think about how
they said it, right? [In a loud, barking voice] I don’t know! [In a pleasant voice] Well, I
don’t have much information, but one of my start faculty members is here and he’s
all excited so I want to learn more. They’re both ways of saying I don’t know, but
boy there’s a good way and a bad way. So anyway, we got it all worked out. I
went to Imagineering. Sweetness and light. And all’s well that ends well.
所以我对他说，好，让我们先退一步。你觉得幻想工程这事对我们是个好主意吗？他说，我
也心中无数。我想，好，我们有共同点。然后我说，关于知识产权问题，是以你说的为准吗
，这不应该是赞助研究院院长来判断吗？他说，嗯，那是。我说，如果他同意你就同意？ [他
说] 嗯，那我没问题。呼的一下，像大笨狼怀尔去追逐必必鸟必必鸟[卡通] ，嗖的一下，我已
经在基因布若克的办公室，他是世界上最棒的人。我跟他说，让我们从宏观谈起，因为我不
想再重蹈前辙。那在总体水平，你觉得这是不是个好主意？他说，如果你问我，我手头资料
有限，但我知道我的明星教员在我的办公室而且他真的很为此兴奋，所以跟我仔细说说。这
里是给管理人员的一个教训。他们都表示了同样的事。但想想他们是怎么说的？ [大嗓门咆哮
] ：我不知道！ [宜人声音]好，我知道不多，但我的明星教员在我这里很兴奋，所以我想进一
步了解。他们两个人都在说，我不知道，但一个是很好的方式，一个坏的方式。不管怎样，
最后我们解决了问题。我去了幻想工程。皆大欢喜，如愿以尝.。
Some brick walls are made of flesh. So I worked on the Aladdin Project. It was
absolutely spectacular, I mean just unbelievable. Here’s my nephew Christopher.
[Shows slide of Christopher on Aladdin apparatus] This was the apparatus. You
would sit on this sort of motorcycle-type thing. And you would steer your magic
carpet and you would put on the head-mounted display. The head-mounted
display is very interesting because it had two parts, and it was a very very clever
design. To get throughput through, the only part that touched the guest’s head was
this little cap and everything else clicked onto it – all the expensive hardware. So
you could replicate the caps because they were basically free to manufacture.
And this is what I really did is I was a cap cleaner during the sabbatical. [laughter]
一些砖墙是由人组成。我的工作是阿拉丁项目。这是美妙决仑，简直难以置信。这里是我的
侄子克里斯托弗。 [放克里斯在阿拉丁装置上的幻灯]这是装置。你坐在这种像摩托车样的东
西上。你可以驾驶你的魔毯，戴上头盔显示器。这头盔显示器是非常有趣，因为它有两个部
分，这是一个非常巧妙的设计。只有一个小帽接触客户的头部以传输数据，其它部分，--所有
昂贵的硬件—都可以卡在帽子上。所以你可以大量生产帽子，它们基本上没有成本。所以我
在学术假其间实际上就是洗帽子。 [笑]