Madam President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, faculty, family, friends, and, most importantly, today, graduates, thank you for letting me share this wonderful day with you. I am not sure I can live up to the high standards of Harvard Commencement speakers. Last year, J.K. Rowling, the billionaire novelist, who started as a classics student, graced this podium. The year before, Bill Gates, the mega-billionaire philanthropist and computer nerd stood here. Today, sadly, you have me. I am not wealthy, but at least I am a nerd.
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U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu’s address at Harvard’s Afternoon Exercises (June 4th, 2009) Contexte : Steven Chu, prix Nobel de physique en 1997 et ministre de l’énergie de Barack Obama s’exprime devant les étudiants d’Harvard en juin dernier lors de la 358e cérémonie de diplomation. Conscient de succéder, dans cet exercice, à des poids lourds et fortunés, comme Bill Gates, le fondateur de Microsoft et J.K. Rowling, l’auteur de la série Harry Potter -, il s’en tire en portant son nerdisme en bandoulière. Il fallait oser ! |
