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Bill: Congratulations!Cla of 2014!Melinda and I are excited to be here.It would be a thrill for anyone to be invited to the speak on Stanford commencement, but it’s especially gratifying for us.Stanford has rapidly becoming the favorite university for members of our family.And it’s long been the favorite university for microsoft and fundation.Our fomular has been to get the smartest, most creative people working on the most important problems.It turns out that a disproportion number of those people are Stanford.Right now we have more than 30 fundation research projects on the way here.When we want to learn more about the immune system to help cure the worst diseases, we work with Stanford;when we want to understand the changing landscape of higher education in the United States so that more low income students get college degrees, we work with Stanford.This is where genius lives.There is a flexibility of mind here, an openne to change and an eagerne for what’s new.This is where peoople come to discover the future and have fun doing that.Melinda: But some people call you are nerds, and we hear that you claim that label with pride.Bill: well, so do we.My normal glaes really aren’t that different.There are so many remarkable things going on here in this campus, but if Melinda and I had to put it into one word what we love most about Standord, it’s the optimism.There is an infectious feeling here that innovation can solve almost every problem.That’s the belief that drove me in 1975 to leave the college in the suburb of Boston and go on an endle leave absence.I believed that the magic of computers and software would empower people everywhere and made the world much much better.It’s been 40 years since then and 20 years since Melinda and I were married.We are both more optimistic now than ever.But on our journey our optimism involved.We’d like to tell you what we learned and talk to you today about how your optimism and ours can do more for more people.When Paul Allen and I started microsoft, we wanted to bring the power of computers and software to the people and that was the kind of ridiric we used.One of the pioneering books in the field had a raised fist in the cover and it was called computer liber.At that time only big businees could buy computers.We wanted to offer the same power to regular people, and democradize computing.By the 1990s, we saw how profoundly personal computers could empower people.But that succe created a new dilemma.If rich kids got computers and poor kids didn’t, then technology would made inequality worse.That ran enaccount to our core beliefs.Technology should benefit anyone.So we woked to close the digital divide.I made it a priority of microsoft, and Melinda and I made it an earlier priority of our foundation.Donating personal computers to public libraries to make sure everyone had acce.The digital divide was a focus of mine in 1997 when I took my first trip to South Africa.I went there on busine so I spent most of my time in meetings in downtown to Houseburger.I stayed in the home of one of the richest families in South Africa.It’s only been three years since Nelson Mandela marked the end of apartheid.When I sat down for dinner with my hosts, they used bell to call the butler.After dinner then men and women seperated, men smoked cigar.I thought “good thing, I’ve read Jane Austin, I wouldn’t have known what’s going on.” But the next day I went to Soweto, the poor township to the southwest of Johannesturg, that it’s been the center of the anti-attack movement.It was a short distance from the city into the township, but the entry was sudden, and hard.I paed into a world completely unlike the one I came from.My visit to Soweto became an early leon and how naïve I was.Microsoft was donating computers and software to a community center there, the kind of thing we did in the United States.But it became clear to me very quickly that this was not the United States.I’ve seen statistics on poverty, but I’ve never really seen poverty.The people there lived in corrugated tin shelters with no electricity, no water, no toilets.Most people didn’t wear shoes.They walked barefeet along the streets except there were no streets, just rots in the mud.The community center had no consistent source of power, so they ripped up an extention cord that ran 200 feet from the center to the diesel generator outside.Looking at these set up, I knew the minute the reporter left that generator would get moved to more emergent task and people used the community center would go back to ring about challenges that could be solved by a personal computer.When I gave my prepared remarks to the pre, I said “Soweto is a mileston.” There are major decisions that I had about whether technology will leave the developing world behind.This is the close of the gap.But as I read these words, I knew they weren’t superrelavent.What I didn’t say was “By the way, we are not focused on the fact that half million people on this continent are dying every year from malaria, but we are sure we will bring you computers.” Before I went to Soweto, I thought I understood the world’s problems, but I was blind to the most important ones.I was so taken aback by what I saw that I had to ask myself “Did I still believe that innovation could solve the world’s toughest problems?” I promised myself that before I came back to Africa, I would find out more about what keeps people poor.Over the years Melinda and I did learn more about the preing needs of the poor.On a later trip to South Africa, I paid a visit to a hospital for patients with MDR-TB, a disease where the curing of under 50 percent.I remembered that hospital as a place of despair, it was a giant open wart with a sea of patients shuffling around in pajamas wearing masks.There was a one floor just for children, including some babies lying in bed.And a little school for kids who are old enough to learn.But many of the children couldn’t make it.And the hospital didn’t seem to know whether it’s worth it to keep the school open.I talked to a patient there in her early 30s.she had been a worker at theTB hospital when she came down with cough.She went to a doctor, and he told her that she had the drug system TB.She was later diagnosed with AIDs.She wasn’t going to live much longer, but there were plenty of MDR patients waiting to take her bed when she decayed day by day.This was a hell with a waiting list.But seeing this hell didn’t reduce my optimism.It channeled it.I got into the car as I left and told the doctor we were working with, “I know MDR-TB is hard to cure, but we must do something for these people.” And in fact, this year, we are entering phase 3 with the new TB drug machine, for patients we respond, instead of 50 percent of curing after 18 months for 2,000 dollars, we get an 80 percent curing after 6 months for under 100 dollars.Optimism is often dismied as false hope.But there is also false hopelene.That’s the attitude that says we can’t defeat poverty and disease.We absolutely can.Melinda: Bill called me that day after he visited the TB hospital and normally if this is one of this international trip, we’ll go through the agenda of our day, who we met and where we’ve been.But this call was different, Bill said to me “Melinda, I’ve been somewhere that I’ve never been before” and then he choked up and he couldn’t go on.And finally he just said,”I’ll tell you when I get home.” And I knew what he was going through because when you see people with so little hope, it breaks your heart.But if you want to do the most, you have to go see the worst.And I’ve had days like that too.About ten years ago, I traveled with a group of friends to India, and on the last day I was there, I had a meeting with a group of postitutes.And I expected to talk to them about the risk of AIDs that they were facing.But what they wanted to talk to me about was stigma.Many of these women had been abandoned by their husbands.That’s why they went to the industry of postitution.They wanted to be able to feed their children.They were so low in the eyes of the society that they could be raped, robbed and beaten by anyone, even the police.And nobody cared.Talking to them about their lives was so moving to me.But what I remembered most was how much they wanted to be touched.They wanted to touch me and be touched by them.It was this physical contact that somehow proved their worth.And so before I left, we linked arms hand in hand, and did photo together.Later that same day, I spent some time in India in the home for the dying.I walked to the large hall ,and I saw rows of rows carts, and every cart was attended to except for one that was far off the corner, and so I decided to go over there.The patient who was in the room was a woman in her 30s.and I remember her eyes.She had these huge, brown ,sorrowful eyes.She was emaciated along the verge of death.Her intensity won’t hold anything so the workers put a pan under her bed and cut a hole in the bottom of the bed everytihg out was just pouring out into that pan.And I could tell that she had AIDs both from the way she looked and the fact that she was off in this corner alone.The stigma of AIDs is vicious, especially for women.And the punishment is the abandonment.When I arrived at her cart, I suddenly felt completely and totally helple.I had absolutely nothing I could offer this woman, I knew I couldn’t save her, but I didn’t want her to be alone.So I knelt down with her and I put my hand out and she reached for my hand and grabbed it and she wouldn’t let it go.And I didn’t speak her language and I couldn’t think what I could say to her, and finally I just said to her “it’s gonna be ok.It’s gonna be ok.It’s not your fault.” And after I’ve been with her for some time, she started to point to the roof top, she clearly wanted to go up and I realized that the sun was going down, what she wanted to do was to go up on the roof top to see the sunset.So the workers in this home for this dying room was very busy, and I said to them, you know, “can we take her up to on the roof top?” and they said “no, no, no.we have to pa out medicines.” So I waited for that to happen, I asked another worker.They said “no no no.we are too busy, we can’t go out there.” So finally I just scooped this woman up in my arms.She was nothing more than skin over bones.And I took her up on the roof top, and I found on of these plastic chairs that blows over her life breath.I put her there, settled her down and put a blank over her legs.And she sat there facing to the west, watching the sunset.The workers knew I made sure that they knew she was absolutely there so that they would bring her down later that evening after the sun went down.And then I had to leave.But she never left me.I feel completely and totally inadequate in face of the woman’s death.But sometimes it’s the people that you can’t help that inspired you most.I knew that those sex workers I had met in the morning could be the woman that I carried upstairs later that evening unle we find a way to defy the stigma that hung over their lives.Over the past ten years, our foundation helps sex workers build support groups so they can empower one another to speak up and demand safe sex and that the clients use condoms.Their brave efforts have helped keep HIV prevalence low among sex workers.And a lot of studies show that’s the big reason why AIDs epidemic has not exploded in India.When these sex workers gathered together to help stop AIDs transmiion, something unexpected and wonderful happened.The community they formed became a platform for everything.Police and others who raped and robbed them couldn’t get away with it anymore.The women set up systems to encourage savings for one another and with those savings.They were able to leave sex work.This was all done by people that the society considered the lowest of below.Optimism for me is not a paive expectation that things would be going to get better.For me, it’s a conviction and belief that we can make things better.So no matter how much suffering we see and no matter how bad it is, we can help people if we don’t lose hope.And if we don’t look away.Bill : Melinda and I have described some devasting scenes, but we want to make the strongest case we can for the power of optimism.Even in dying situation, optimism fuels innovation and lives to newer cultures that would eliminate suffering.But if you’ve never seen the peple who are suffering, your optimism can’t help them.You will never change their world.And that brings me to what I see is a paradox.The modern world is an incrediable source of the innovation and and Stanford stands in the center of that, creating new companies, and schools of thoughts, and inspiring the art of literature,miracal drugs and amazing graduates.Whether you are the scientist with a new discovery or working in the trendrous to understand the needs of the most margin lives.You are advancing amazing breakthroughs and what people can do for each other.At the same time, if you ask people acro the United States, is the future going to be better than the past, most say no.my kids would be worse off than I am.They think innovation won’t make the world better for their children.So who is right? The people who say innovation will create new poibilities and make the world better, or the people who see a trend for inequality and a deline in opportunity and don’t think innovation will change that? The peimists are wrong in my view.But they are not crazy.If innovation is purely market driven, and we don’t focus on the big inequalities, then we could have an amazing advances and inventions that leave the world even more divided.We won’t improve public schools, we won’t cure malaria, we won’t end poverty.We won’t develop the innovations poor farmers need to grow food in a changing climate.If our optimism doesn’t stre the problems that affect so many of our fellow human beings, then our optimism needs more empathy.If empathy chanels our optimism, we will see the poverty, and disease and poor schools.We will answer with our innovations.And we will surprise the peimists.Over the next generation, you Stanford graduates will lead a new wave of innovation.Which problems will you decide to solve? If your world is wide, you could create the future we all want.If your world is narrow, you may create the future that peimists fear.I started learning in Soweto that if we are going to make our optimism matter to everyone, and enpower people everywhere, we have to see the lives of those most in need.If we have optimism without empathy, then it doesn’t matter how much we master the scret of science.We are not really solving problems.We are just working on puzzles.I think most of you have a broader world view than I had at your age.You could do better at this than I did.If you put your hearts and minds to it, you can surprise the peimists.We are eager to see it.Melinda: so let your heart break.It will change what you do with your optimism.On a trip to South Asia, I met a desperately poor Indian woman.She has two children and she’s begged me to take them home with me.And when I begged her for her forgivene, she said , well,then please just take one of them.Another trip to south Los Angelas, I met with a group of students from a tough neighbourhood.A young girl said to me, do you ever feel like we are the kids whose parents shirk their responsibilities, and we are just leftovers? Thes women broke my heart.And they still do.And the empathy intensifies, if I admit to myself that could be me.When I talked with the mothers I meet during my travels, there is no difference between what we want for our children, the only difference is our ability to provide it to our children.So what accounts for that difference? Bill and I talked about this with our own kids around the dinner table.Bill worked incredibly hard.And he took risks and he made sacrifices for succe.But there is another eential ingredient of succe, and that is luck.Absolute and total luck.When were you born.Who are your parents.Where did you grow up.None of us earn these things.These things were given to us.So when we strip away all ouf luck and previledge, and we consider where we would be without them, it becomes so much easier to see someone who is poor and say that could be me.And that’s empathy.Empathy tears down barriers, and opens up a whole new frontiers for optimism.So here is our appeal to you all.As you leave Stanford, take all your genius, and your optimism and your empathy, and go change the world in ways that would make millions of people optimistic.You don’t’ have to rush.You have careers to launch and debts to pay and spouses to meet and marry.That’s plenty enough for right now.but in the course of your lives, perhaps without any plan on your part, you’ll suffering that’s gonna break your heart.And when it happens, don’t’ turn away from it.That’s the moment that change is born.Congratulations and good luck to the cla of 2014.