Sundar Pichai felicitated the class of 2020. He said "Congratulations to you, as well as your parents, your teachers and all those who have helped you till date. I never thought that I would give a commencement speech with a live audience. But it gives me a deeper understanding of what our YouTube creators do. And I certainly never thought I'd share a virtual stage with a former president, a First Lady, Lady Gaga, and a Queen. Also BTS. I do not think this is not the graduation ceremony that anyone imagined. When you should celebrate all the knowledge you have gained, you can grieve what you have lost: the tricks you have done, the jobs you have earned, and the things you have gained. In moments like these, it can be difficult to find hope. This is not really the end of the speech, so don't get too excited. I know that you will get the victory because many other people have done it in front of you. One hundred years ago, the class of 1920 graduated at the end of a deadly epidemic. Fifty years ago, the class of 1970 graduated in the midst of the Vietnam War. And about 20 years ago, the class of 2001 graduated just a few months before 9/11. There are notable examples of this. They had to overcome new challenges, and in all cases, they prevailed.
The long arch of history tells us that we have every reason to be hopeful. Be hopeful right there. There is an interesting trend that I noticed. It is very convenient to reduce the capacity of the following for each generation. This is because they do not realize that the progress of one generation becomes the fundamental basis for the next. And it takes a new set of people to come together and realize all the possibilities. That's where I grew up without much access to technology. We did not receive our first telephone until 10. I did not have regular computer access until I came to America for graduate school. And our television, when we finally got one, had only one channel. Imagine how strange I am today speaking to you on a platform that has millions of channels. In contrast, you grew up with computers of all shapes and sizes. Anywhere, the ability to ask anything to a computer the work I've done in my last decade is not surprising to you. It's ok, I don't mind it. There are probably things about technology that disappoint you and make you impatient. Don't lose that impatience right there. This will create the next technology revolution and enable you to create things that my generation could never even dream of. You may be disappointed with my generation's view of climate change, or education. This will build the progress the world needs. You will make the world better in your own way. Even if you don't know exactly. The important thing is to have open thoughts that you love. For me, it was technology. The more access my family had to technology, the better our lives were.
So when I graduated, I knew that I wanted to do something to make technology more accessible to others. I felt that I could achieve this by helping to build better semiconductors. Right there I mean, what could be more exciting than that? My father spent the equivalent of a year's salary for my plane ticket so that I could attend Stanford. This was my first time on an aircraft. But when I finally landed in California, things were not as I had imagined. America was expensive. A phone call back home was over $ 2 a minute, and the price of a backpack was the same as my father's monthly salary in India. For all the talk about the hot California beaches that water was freezing cold! Above all, I remembered my family, my friends, and my girlfriend now my wife back in India during which computing was a bright spot for me. For the first time in my life, I could use a computer whenever I wanted. This completely blew my mind. And at that very moment, the Internet was literally being built around me. The year I came to Stanford, the same year a browser mosaic was released, which would popularize the world wide web and the Internet. These two moments will profoundly shape the rest of my life.
But at that time, I did not know that. It took me a while to realize that the Internet would be the single best way to make technology accessible to more people. As soon as I did, I changed course and decided to pursue my dreams on Google. Inspired by the surprise of the first browser I built, I led the effort to launch one called Chrome in 2009 and tried to help Google develop affordable laptops and phones. In any part of the world, you all have equal access to information. Also if I stayed in graduate school, I might be a PhD. Today that must have made my parents really proud. But I can miss the opportunity to bring the benefits of technology to many others. I certainly don't stand here to talk to you as the CEO of Google. Trust me right there when I say that I had not seen any of it when I first touched it in the state of California 27 years ago. The only thing that drove me apart from luck was a deep passion for technology and an open mind. That's why take time to find something that makes you more excited than anything in the world.
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