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扎克伯格与妻子写给女儿的信（译文）
亲爱的Max（扎克伯格的女儿，译者注）：
我和你妈妈还找不到词汇来描述你给我们带来的对未来的期望。你的新生活充满了潜能，我们愿你能健康快乐，以让你充分地去探索研究。你已经给了我们一个理由去思考我们希望你生活的那个世界。
像所有的父母一样，我们想要你长大后的世界比我们今天更好。
尽管大众关注的常常是“哪里有问题”，但其实我们的世界在很多方面都是在进步的：健康状况得到改善；贫困在减少；知识不断增长；人与人之间的联系愈发密切。
——各个领域的技术进步都在暗示着，未来你生活的世界会比我们现在更好。
我和你妈妈会尽所能去实现这个愿景，不只是因为我们爱你，也因为我们有责任让下一代的孩子们过上这样的生活。
我们相信所有人都有平等，不仅是活在当下的人，更包括活在未来的人。我们的社会有义务把握当下，去造福所有将要来到这个世界的人们，而不仅仅是已经活着的这些。
然而，如今的我们（人类）还没能将手上的资源，齐心协力地用到你们那一代将会面对的机遇和挑战上去。
比如疾病。如今我们在治疗病人上的花销，几乎是研发药物的支出的50倍。而让你一开始就不生病的，其实是研发药物。
药物学成为真正的科学，还不到100年，有些疾病已经可以完全治愈，另外一些则有巨大进展。随着技术的进步，在未来100年，我们很有机会预防、治愈、控制所有或者几乎所有的尚未克服的疾病。
现在，大多数人会死于五种病——心脏病、癌症、中风、神经系统退行性疾病以及传染病，我们可以在研究这些病上加快些进度。
当所有人都意识到，我们这一代和我们的下一代不必受到病痛折磨时，我们才能和衷共济，朝着实现这一愿景，献出一份力。
——我和你妈妈都想这么做。
治愈疾病需要时间。五年或十年，或许我们做不出什么成绩。但长此以往，播下的种子总会发芽，有一天，你和你的孩子就会看到那些我们只能想象的东西——一个没有病痛的世界。
还有很多像这样的机会。如果社会能将它的能量集中在这些巨大的挑战上，我们就可以给你们留下一个更好的世界。
我们对你们这一代的希望，集中在两个理念：开发人的潜能，实现公平。
开发人的潜能，就是不断拓展一个杰出的人所能达到的上限。
你学到的、经历的东西，是否能百倍于今人？
我们能否根除疾病，使你们活得更久、更健康？
我们能否连接世界，使你们可以接触到世间所有的观念、人和机会？
我们能否使用更多的清洁能源，让你们能够在保护环境的同时，发明我们无法想象的事物？
我们能否更好地培养企业家能力，让你们没有做不成的生意，没有解决不了的困难，从而实现和平与繁荣？
促进平等，就是保证所有人都得到机会——不论国籍，不论贵贱。
——我们的社会必须做到这一点，不仅出于正义和慈善，也是人类的进步。
当下的我们被剥夺了许多应有的机会。唯一实现它们的办法，就是将世上每个人的才能、理念和贡献都引导起来。
我们这一代可以遏制贫穷和饥饿吗？
我们可以给每个人提供基本卫生保障吗？
我们可以构建开明、包容的社群吗？
我们可以在所有国度的人之间培养起和平、理解的关系吗？
我们可以真正地，让所有的女人、小孩、移民以及所有被孤立的人，得到力量吗？
如果我们这一代做出了正确的抉择，上面这些问题的答案，都可以是“可以”——希望是在你们那一代就实现。
上述两项使命，需要一种全新的方式，让所有人都朝着这些目标奋斗。
我们必须进行25年、50年乃至100年的长期投资。只顾当下，不能解决问题。
我们必须与我们服务的人（们）切实沟通。如果我们不懂他们的需求，一切都是空谈。
我们必须发展科技，谋求变局。大家都在投资，但更需要效率的提高，以及创新的思维。
我们必须参与到政策的辩论中，让计划得到充分的争议、讨论。很多人不愿意这样做，但可持续的进步需要实际行动的支持。
我们必须支持各领域最强大、最独立的领袖。与专家合作，才是最有效的方法。
我们必须用今天来冒险，以获得关于明天的知识。我们才刚刚起步，许多尝试没有结果，但我们要不断倾听、不断学习，不断进步。
我们的个性化教育、爱好、集体教育和健康状况，构成了我们的理念。
我们这一代人，大多在教室里以相同的节奏学到相同的东西——不是出于自己的兴趣和需要。
而你们，要有自己的职业规划——工程师、医生、作家，或者社群领袖。你们会拥有最懂你们的科技，让你们进步神速。你们会去探索那些现在的学校不传授的东西。你们的老师也会用更好的工具和内容帮助你实现自己的规划。
甚至，全世界的学生都可以通过互联网，得到个性化的教育。毫无疑问，让所有人站到同一起跑线上需要的不只是技术，但个性化教育会是一个好办法。
现在我们正致力于这项技术，而成果也很令人乐观。学生们不仅成绩提高，还得到了学习任何东西的技能和信心。
但一切才刚刚开始：
我和你妈妈都当过老师，所以明白这需要教育界的领袖的帮助；需要与社群结合（我们在旧金山湾区有试点）；需要新的技术和新的理念；也需要试错。
自从我们意识到，我们可以为你们创造一个什么样的世界，我们就有责任尽我们所能去实现它。
齐心协力，我们就能够做到。当我们成功了，个性化教育不只能帮助好学校里的学生，而是造福所有上网的人。
许多对你们这一代有益的机遇，都源于“让所有人都能上网”。
有人觉得网络只用于娱乐和沟通，但对世上大部分人来说，网络可能是一条生命线。
如果你家附近没有好学校，互联网能给你提供教育；如果你家附近没有好医生，互联网能提供很多有用的信息；如果你家附近没有银行，互联网能提供金融服务；如果你缺钱，互联网能提供工作和机遇。
互联网是如此重要，10个人中，有1个人就是通过网络摆脱贫困，找到工作的。但如今世上还有超过一半的人——超过40亿的人——无法上网。
如果我们这一代能够让他们连上网，我们可以让数以亿计的人摆脱贫困。我们可以让数以亿计的孩子得到教育，让千千万万的人摆脱疾病。
这项长期努力，利用技术和合作，也能得到进步。新的技术可以让利润更加丰厚，也能打通那些封闭的地区；可以让政府、非盈利机构和企业合作起来；可以让社群知道他们真正所需；善良的人们对于未来的路总有不同的看法，而我们在成功之前，也会尝试许多不同的东西。
总之，齐心协力我们才能成功。
技术不能自己解决问题。让世界更美好，首先我们要构建强大而健康的社群。
孩子们只有学习，才有机会；只有健康，才能更好地学习。
健康要从小抓起，有爱的家庭，好的营养，安全稳定的环境都很重要。
小时候有创伤经历的孩子通常长大后心智、身体会不那么健康。
你妈妈既是医生也是老师，她深有体会。
如果你童年过得不健康；或者总是担心衣食住行，担心会遭到虐待；担心自己的肤色、宗教、性别是否会让你遭到歧视；都会让你很难开发所有的潜质。
我们需要所有机构都明白，这些因素是相互关联的。这也是你妈妈正在努力构建的新型学校的教育观。
通过学校、健康机构、家长团体和当地政府合作，保证所有的孩子都从小被充足的喂养和照顾，我们才能开始让这些受到不公正待遇的人和世界联系起来，让每个人得到平等的机会。
可能需要很多年才能建成这个体系。这也说明，“开发人的潜能”与“实现公平”是相辅相成的。如果我们两者都想实现，我们首先得建立包容、健康的社群。
为了让你们活在更好的世界，我们还有很多事要做。
现在，我和你妈妈正为了应对这些挑战，贡献我们的绵薄之力。我将在未来数年，继续担任Facebook的CEO，但这些东西都太重要了，我们不能等你或者我们够老了，才开始这份事业。趁现在年轻开始干，我们希望看到复合效益能够贯穿我们的一生。
当你成为我们家庭的下一代，我们也成立了“扎克伯格-陈计划”（陈是扎克伯格的妻子，译者注），让全世界的人们加入到为下一代的潜力开发和公平实现创造条件的队伍中来。我们专注的领域有个性化教育、治愈疾病、联通人们以及构造强大社群。
我们将我们在Facebook里99%的股份——目前价值大约为450亿美元——用于这项事业。我们知道，与所有贡献其中的资源和才智相比，这只是很小的一部分。但我们想要尽我们所能，与许多人共事。
接下来的几个月，我们将公布更多细节。我们知道许多人对于我们正在做的事有疑问。
如今我们为人父母，进入了生活的新篇章，我们想要对所有促成这件事的人表示感谢。
我们能做这项事业，是因为我们背后有一个强大的全球性的社群。建立Facebook，创造了许多可以造福下一代的资源。——所有Facebook的成员都有贡献。
站在专家的肩膀上，我们才能朝着这些机遇不断进取。
我们能专注于此，也是因为我们身旁有幸福的家庭，可靠的朋友和优秀的同事，我们希望你也有这样美好的关系。
Max，我们爱你，也意识到有责任，让你和所有的孩子活在更好的世界。我们希望你的生命里也同样充满你给予我们的爱，希望和快乐。我们等不及让你看看，你给这世界带来了什么。
爱你的妈妈和爸爸
顺便：“我们在一生中，将会奉献我们99%的Facebook股票——现在价值约450亿美元——来推进这一使命。我们知道，比起之前在这些问题上已经投入的所有资源和许多已经在努力的人才来说，这只是一个小小的贡献。但我们想尽我们所能，和大家并肩作战。”
扎克伯格宣布他和妻子将把 Facebook 的 99% 股票——目前价值 450 亿美元，以女儿的名义建立一个慈善机构。
初为人父的扎克伯格在“脸谱”上深情更新状态：
麦克斯，我和妈妈都很愛你，也希望能尽力將这个世界变得更美好，为你，也为其他的孩子。我们希望你的生活充滿了愛、希望以及快乐，就像你的降生給我们带来美好一样，我们也期待看到你为这个世界带来來更多。
扎克伯格和华裔妻子普莉希拉在哈佛大学念书時相识。两人相恋9年后于2012年步入婚姻殿堂。2015年8月，扎克伯格在脸书上宣布妻子怀孕，并称“我们的生活揭开了新的篇章。”
扎克伯格曾经表示，妻子怀上这个孩子並不容易，在想要孩子的两年时间里，普莉希拉经历了三次流产。
据新华网报道，Facebook在周二一份文件中称，扎克伯格目前持有该公司400万A股股份，以及大约4.19亿优先股股份。扎克伯格表示，在可预见的未来，他计划保留他在Facebook的多数投票权。
扎克伯格与妻子的慷慨已有历史。美国《慈善纪事》杂志公布的2013年美国50大慈善家排行榜，夫妇二人登上榜首。《慈善纪事》编辑斯泰茜-帕尔默指出，扎克伯格和妻子2013年12月向加利福尼亚州硅谷地区的一家非营利性机构捐赠1800万股“脸谱”股票，市值超过9.7亿美元。这也是有史以来30岁以下美国人捐助的最高款额。此外，这笔款项还将用于教育事业。
附英文原文：
Dear Max：
You mother and I don't yet have the words to describe the hope you give us for the future . You new life is full of promise,and we hope you will be happy and healthy so you can explore it fully. You've already given us a reason to reflect on the world we hope you live in.
Like all parents, we want you to grow up in a world better than ours today.
While headlines often focus on what's wrong, in many ways the world is getting better. Health is improving. Poverty is shrinking. Knowledge is growing. People are connecting. Technological progress in every field means your life should be dramatically better than ours today.
We will do our part to make this happen, not only because we love you, but also because we have a moral responsibility to all children in the next generation.
We believe all lives have equal value, and that includes the many more people who will live in future generations than live today. Our society has an obligation to invest now to improve the lives of all those coming into this world, not just those already here.
But right now, we don't always collectively direct our resources at the biggest opportunities and problems your generation will face.
Consider disease. Today we spend about 50 times more as a society treating people who are sick than we invest in research so you won't get sick in the first place.
Medicine has only been a real science for less than 100 years, and we've already seen complete cures for some diseases and good progress for others. As technology accelerates, we have a real shot at preventing, curing or managing all or most of the rest in the next 100 years.
Today, most people die from five things -- heart disease, cancer, stroke, neurodegenerative and infectious diseases -- and we can make faster progress on these and other problems.
Once we recognize that your generation and your children's generation may not have to suffer from disease, we collectively have a responsibility to tilt our investments a bit more towards the future to make this reality. Your mother and I want to do our part.
Curing disease will take time. Over short periods of five or ten years, it may not seem like we're making much of a difference. But over the long term, seeds planted now will grow, and one day, you or your children will see what we can only imagine: a world without suffering from disease.
There are so many opportunities just like this. If society focuses more of its energy on these great challenges, we will leave your generation a much better world.
Our hopes for your generation focus on two ideas: advancing human potential and promoting equality.
Advancing human potential is about pushing the boundaries on how great a human life can be.
Can you learn and experience 100 times more than we do today?
Can our generation cure disease so you live much longer and healthier lives?
Can we connect the world so you have access to every idea, person and opportunity?
Can we harness more clean energy so you can invent things we can't conceive of today while protecting the environment?
Can we cultivate entrepreneurship so you can build any business and solve any challenge to grow peace and prosperity?
Promoting equality is about making sure everyone has access to these opportunities -- regardless of the nation, families or circumstances they are born into.
Our society must do this not only for justice or charity, but for the greatness of human progress.
Today we are robbed of the potential so many have to offer. The only way to achieve our full potential is to channel the talents, ideas and contributions of every person in the world.
Can our generation eliminate poverty and hunger?
Can we provide everyone with basic healthcare?
Can we build inclusive and welcoming communities?
Can we nurture peaceful and understanding relationships between people of all nations?
Can we truly empower everyone -- women, children, underrepresented minorities, immigrants and the unconnected?
If our generation makes the right investments, the answer to each of these questions can be yes -- and hopefully within your lifetime.
This mission -- advancing human potential and promoting equality -- will require a new approach for all working towards these goals.
We must make long term investments over 25, 50 or even 100 years. The greatest challenges require very long time horizons and cannot be solved by short term thinking.
We must engage directly with the people we serve. We can't empower people if we don't understand the needs and desires of their communities.
We must build technology to make change. Many institutions invest money in these challenges, but most progress comes from productivity gains through innovation.
We must participate in policy and advocacy to shape debates. Many institutions are unwilling to do this, but progress must be supported by movements to be sustainable.
We must back the strongest and most independent leaders in each field.Partnering with experts is more effective for the mission than trying to lead efforts ourselves.
We must take risks today to learn lessons for tomorrow. We're early in our learning and many things we try won't work, but we'll listen and learn and keep improving.
Our experience with personalized learning, internet access, and community education and health has shaped our philosophy.
Our generation grew up in classrooms where we all learned the same things at the same pace regardless of our interests or needs.
Your generation will set goals for what you want to become -- like an engineer, health worker, writer or community leader. You'll have technology that understands how you learn best and where you need to focus. You'll advance quickly in subjects that interest you most, and get as much help as you need in your most challenging areas. You'll explore topics that aren't even offered in schools today. Your teachers will also have better tools and data to help you achieve your goals.
Even better, students around the world will be able to use personalized learning tools over the internet, even if they don't live near good schools. Of course it will take more than technology to give everyone a fair start in life, but personalized learning can be one scalable way to give all children a better education and more equal opportunity.
We're starting to build this technology now, and the results are already promising. Not only do students perform better on tests, but they gain the skills and confidence to learn anything they want. And this journey is just beginning. The technology and teaching will rapidly improve every year you're in school.
Your mother and I have both taught students and we've seen what it takes to make this work. It will take working with the strongest leaders in education to help schools around the world adopt personalized learning. It will take engaging with communities, which is why we're starting in our San Francisco Bay Area community. It will take building new technology and trying new ideas. And it will take making mistakes and learning many lessons before achieving these goals.
But once we understand the world we can create for your generation, we have a responsibility as a society to focus our investments on the future to make this reality.
Together, we can do this. And when we do, personalized learning will not only help students in good schools, it will help provide more equal opportunity to anyone with an internet connection.
Many of the greatest opportunities for your generation will come from giving everyone access to the internet.
People often think of the internet as just for entertainment or communication. But for the majority of people in the world, the internet can be a lifeline.
It provides education if you don't live near a good school. It provides health information on how to avoid diseases or raise healthy children if you don't live near a doctor. It provides financial services if you don't live near a bank. It provides access to jobs and opportunities if you don't live in a good economy.
The internet is so important that for every 10 people who gain internet access, about one person is lifted out of poverty and about one new job is created.
Yet still more than half of the world's population -- more than 4 billion people -- don't have access to the internet.
If our generation connects them, we can lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. We can also help hundreds of millions of children get an education and save millions of lives by helping people avoid disease.
This is another long term effort that can be advanced by technology and partnership. It will take inventing new technology to make the internet more affordable and bring access to unconnected areas. It will take partnering with governments, non-profits and companies. It will take engaging with communities to understand what they need. Good people will have different views on the best path forward, and we will try many efforts before we succeed.
But together we can succeed and create a more equal world.
Technology can't solve problems by itself. Building a better world starts with building strong and healthy communities.
Children have the best opportunities when they can learn. And they learn best when they're healthy.
Health starts early -- with loving family, good nutrition and a safe, stable environment.
Children who face traumatic experiences early in life often develop less healthy minds and bodies. Studies show physical changes in brain development leading to lower cognitive ability.
Your mother is a doctor and educator, and she has seen this firsthand.
If you have an unhealthy childhood, it's difficult to reach your full potential.
If you have to wonder whether you'll have food or rent, or worry about abuse or crime, then it's difficult to reach your full potential.
If you fear you'll go to prison rather than college because of the color of your skin, or that your family will be deported because of your legal status, or that you may be a victim of violence because of your religion, sexual orientation or gender identity, then it's difficult to reach your full potential.
We need institutions that understand these issues are all connected. That's the philosophy of the new type of school your mother is building.
By partnering with schools, health centers, parent groups and local governments, and by ensuring all children are well fed and cared for starting young, we can start to treat these inequities as connected. Only then can we collectively start to give everyone an equal opportunity.
It will take many years to fully develop this model. But it's another example of how advancing human potential and promoting equality are tightly linked. If we want either, we must first build inclusive and healthy communities.
For your generation to live in a better world, there is so much more our generation can do.
Today your mother and I are committing to spend our lives doing our small part to help solve these challenges. I will continue to serve as Facebook's CEO for many, many years to come, but these issues are too important to wait until you or we are older to begin this work. By starting at a young age, we hope to see compounding benefits throughout our lives.
As you begin the next generation of the Chan Zuckerberg family, we also begin the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to join people across the world to advance human potential and promote equality for all children in the next generation. Our initial areas of focus will be personalized learning, curing disease, connecting people and building strong communities.
We will give 99% of our Facebook shares -- currently about $45 billion -- during our lives to advance this mission. We know this is a small contribution compared to all the resources and talents of those already working on these issues. But we want to do what we can, working alongside many others.
We'll share more details in the coming months once we settle into our new family rhythm and return from our maternity and paternity leaves. We understand you'll have many questions about why and how we're doing this.
As we become parents and enter this next chapter of our lives, we want to share our deep appreciation for everyone who makes this possible.
We can do this work only because we have a strong global community behind us. Building Facebook has created resources to improve the world for the next generation. Every member of the Facebook community is playing a part in this work.
We can make progress towards these opportunities only by standing on the shoulders of experts -- our mentors, partners and many incredible people whose contributions built these fields.
And we can only focus on serving this community and this mission because we are surrounded by loving family, supportive friends and amazing colleagues. We hope you will have such deep and inspiring relationships in your life too.
Max, we love you and feel a great responsibility to leave the world a better place for you and all children. We wish you a life filled with the same love, hope and joy you give us. We can't wait to see what you bring to this world.
Love,
Mom and Dad
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