双语新闻：Zuora创始人兼CEO 成功三分靠自身七分靠环境

2014-07-08 15:39:25来源：可可英语

　　2. Which area of technology excites you most?

　　2. 哪个科技领域最让你激动?

　　If I were to start a company today, it would definitely be a mobile-only application. I look at the way my kids interact with technology. My 4-year-old’s ability to use smart phones and tablets far, far exceeds her ability to use a computer. The future is going to be these devices. It’s hard for those of us who are adults to imagine what will happen if we don’t have devices with keyboards anymore, but that’s where innovation is going and that’s where technology is going to be in five years.

　　如果现在让我去组建公司，那一定会是一家纯粹的移动应用开发商。我观察过我的孩子们和科技的互动。我女儿今年4岁，使用智能手机和平板电脑的能力远远超过电脑。未来属于这些产品。我们这些大人很难想象如果这些东西没了键盘会出现什么样的情况，但这恰恰是创新的方向，也是今后五年科技的发展方向。

　　3. What advice would you give to someone who wants to do what you do?

　　3. 如果有人希望像你一样干一番事业，你对他们有什么建议?

　　People think that success and innovation comes like a flash. You’re Isaac Newton, and you’re sitting below a tree. An apple falls on your head and boom: You have all these ideas about physics. Or you’re sitting around your house and have the idea for Dropbox, and the next thing you know it’s worth $1 billion. People seem to look for that “flash,” and it doesn’t work like that. We’ve all been with some friends, perhaps sitting around a diner, saying how about this idea, or that idea, and they’re hoping that during the course of a meal, they’ll come up with the next Dropbox. It just doesn’t work like that. You have to go and pursue an idea, and you have to work it out. It takes a long time. You plod away at something, and you try to go deep, immerse yourself, and learn. You try to take these leaps, and eventually, you hit upon your breakthrough.

　　人们都觉得成功和创新来自于灵机一动。就像牛顿坐在苹果树下。苹果砸在头上就立即掌握了所有的物理定律。或者在家里坐着的时候想到了Dropbox这样的云存储业务，接下来就发现它价值10亿美元。他们寻找的似乎就是这样的灵光闪现，但实际情况不是这样。我们都会跟朋友见面，比如一起吃顿饭，席间大家会讨论这样或那样的主意，都盼望着吃完这顿饭之后马上就能建立起另一个Dropbox。但实际情况确实不是这样。你必须去寻找和追踪某个想法，必须让它成为现实。这需要很长时间。你得为了某个目标而艰苦跋涉，深入钻研，让自己沉浸其中并进行学习。你得设法完成这样的跨越，然后才能实现突破。

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