异类之不一样的成功启示录 第31期:命运的眷顾

 　　In an average week in those years, I was spending more time in the Computer Center than in my classes.

　　那时候，我每周待在计算机中心的时间，远远超过我待在教室里面的时间。
　　All of us down their had this recurring 1 nightmare of forgetting to show up for class at all, of not realizing we were enrolled 2.
　　和我一块儿来到计算机中心的人都经常在里面熬夜。我很少在教室里面，很多同学都不能确认我是否已经注册入学。
　　The challenge was that they gave all the students an account with a fixed 3 amount of money, so your time would run out.
　　觉得比较难办的是每个学生购买的上机时间都是固定的，上机的时间总是不够用。
　　When you signed on, you would put in how long you wanted to spend on the computer.
　　在注册的时候，你要写清楚自己上机的时间有多长。
　　They gave you, like, an hour of time. That's all you'd get." he said, laughing at the memory.
　　“计算机中心大约会给你1小时的时间，你必须抓紧这点时间，”回忆起往事，他不禁笑了起来，
　　"But someone figured out if you put in 'time equals' and then a little letter, like t equals k, they wouldn't charge you.
　　“但是很快有人发现，只要你输入‘time equals’然后再输入一行字母，例如t=k，这就不再成为烦人的问题。
　　It was a bug 4 in the software. You could put in t equals k and sit there forever."
　　计箅机中心的程序存在一个bug,你只要设置好t=k,就可以无限制地用电脑。”
　　Just look at the stream of opportunities that came Bill Joy's way.
　　让我们看看机遇是怎样眷顾比尔.乔伊的。
　　Because he happened to go to a farsighted school like the University of Michigan,
　　正是因为他刚好进了密歇根大学这样一所颇有远见的高校，
　　he was able to practice on a time-sharing system instead of punch cards;
　　他才可以分享到分时系统的好处，而不是用打孔的卡片进行编程，
　　because the Michigan system happened to have a bug in it, he could program all he wanted;
　　正是因为密歇根分时系统存在一个bug，他才可以随心所欲地用电脑编程，
　　because the university was willing to spend the money to keep the Computer Center open twenty-four hours, he could stay up all night;
　　正是因为密歇根大学规定只要购买的上机时间足够，任何人都可以24小时待在计算机中心使用电脑，他才可以整夜泡在那里；
　　and because he was able to put in so many hours, by the time he happened to be presented with the opportunity to rewrite UNIX,
　　正是因为他能够花很多时间在电脑上，他才拥有顺利地里新编写UNIX系统的机会。
　　he was up to the task.
　　才能够完成这一项艰巨的任务。
　　Bill Joy was brilliant. He wanted to learn. That was a big part of it.
　　比尔.乔伊是聪明的，他有着强烈的求知欲，这是他成功的重要原因。
　　But before he could become an expert, someone had to give him the opportunity to learn how to be an expert.
　　但是在他成为专家之前，必须有人能够提供给他机会，让他知道怎样去成为一名专家。
　　"At Michigan, I was probably programming eight or ten hours a day," he went on.
　　“在密歇根，我一天常有8到10个小时都在编程”他接着谈到，
　　"By the time I was at Berkeley, I was doing it day and night. I had a terminal at home.
　　“到伯克利之后，我更是没日没夜地编程。我的宿舍有一个计算机终端，
　　I'd stay up until two or three clock in the morning, watching old movies and programming.
　　我可以编写程序，或者看看老电影，一般要待到凌晨2点或者3点。
　　Sometimes I'd fall asleep at the keyboard."
　　有时候，我就伏在键盘上睡了过去，”
　　He mimed 5 his head falling onto the keyboard.
　　说着, 他做了一个在键盘上埋头睡觉的姿势
　　"and you know how the key repeats until the end and starts to go beep, beep, beep?
　　“你知道摁着键盘的结果，一埋头睡下去，计算机就开始‘嘟嘟嘟’地叫起来，
　　After that happens three times, you have to go to bed. I was still relatively 6 incompetent 7 even when I got to Berkeley.
　　直到响了三次，我才明白是该上床睡觉了。即便我来到了伯克利，相对而言，我在计算机编程技术方面依旧不合格，
　　I was proficient 8 by my second year there. That's when I wrote programs that are still in use today, thirty years later."
　　到第二年才算比较精通。我在那里编写的程序，事隔30年后的今天，仍然还在使用。”
　　He paused for a moment to do the math in his head, which for someone like Bill Joy doesn't take very long.
　　他停了停，在他的头脑里做着数学运算，对乔伊这样的人来说，这样的运算并不需要太多时间：
　　Michigan in 1971. Programming in earnest by sophomore 9 year.
　　1971年进入密歇根，第二年开始疯狂编程，
　　Add in the summers, then the days and nights in his first year at Berkeley.
　　加上一个夏天，然后就是在伯克利第一年的日日夜夜。
　　"It's five years," he said, finally.
　　最后，他说：“5年时间。”
　　"I didn't start the day I started at Michigan, so, maybe, ten thousand hours, that's about right."
　　“我并不是在密歇根开始起步的，所以……所以……也许是10 000个小时？应该刚好是。”