這兩天，小編在網(wǎng)上許多論壇看到號稱“史上最狂妄的演講”，即Oracle的CEO——Larry. Ellison在耶魯大學給畢業(yè)生們進行的演講。想進一步看到當時現(xiàn)場視頻的小編開始尋找。

在查找的時候，小編想盡了各種方法，甚至采用“非常手段”去youtube查Larry. Ellison的視頻，都不見這篇演講的“身影”。在逛到清華水木社區(qū)的一個轉載這篇演講稿、并且以“史上最?！毖葜v稿作為噱頭的帖子時，有人在回帖中指出，這篇演講稿是個世紀大騙局，乃他人杜撰，甚至嘲笑樓主太火星，“tooooooooo old"。

但是，這篇演講稿活靈活現(xiàn)，早就被各大論壇爭相轉載，百度百科關于Larry. Ellison的詞條也有收錄。并且描述說在演講途中，Larry. Ellison被迫帶下講壇，似乎為他接下來要演講的內容帶上了一種神秘色彩。同時也令人無比驚訝，原來號稱言論自由的美國，校方也會當場“架走”正在演講的名人。

小編頓時迷惑了，一方面網(wǎng)上的轉載不斷，很多是知名的論壇，并且很多人都相信而且“力挺”這位敢說真話、大膽有能力的CEO；另一方面，又有不少網(wǎng)友出來指出這篇演講稿實際上是假的。

此時，小編找到了一篇內容詳實的辟謠文章，現(xiàn)摘錄如下：

In July 2000, an inventive story about Oracle CEO Larry Ellison bestowing an unusual commencement speech upon the graduating class of Yale University began popping up in various inboxes. Some were left wondering if this could be the real thing, given what is known of Ellison's famed ego, and because the wide circulation of the 1997 Kurt Vonnegut commencement speech hoax had prepared the way for this piece to sound plausible.

In truth, Ellison did not give a such a speech at Yale, nor anywhere else. The article was the fanciful creation of Andrew Marlatt, a writer for the satire website, SatireWire. It was reprinted (with SatireWire's express permission) on BBspot, another satirical web site.

Should there still be any remnant of doubt about the veracity of the article in question, Yale didn't have a guest speaker at its 299th graduation ceremony, held in May 2000. Yale seniors received a more personal address on Class Day, another part of this two-day commencement ceremony. The keynote speaker for that event was Bob Woodward, who graduated from Yale in 1965. (His investigation of the Watergate break-in helped win a Pulitzer Prize for The Washington Post in 1973.)

Larry Ellison is a prime choice for such lampooning because this thrice-married, thrice-divorced multimillionaire is known for living? larger than life. A 1997 unofficial biography was titled The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: God Doesn't Think He is Larry Ellison.

文章大意為：該演講出自諷刺性網(wǎng)站SatireWire富于想象力的作家安Andrew Marlatt（德努?馬拉特）的手筆，后來，文章被轉載在了另外一個諷刺性網(wǎng)站BBspot上。

因為埃里森特立獨行的個性人盡皆知，所以他成為了這一“騙局“最佳的選擇，又因為1997年他曾經(jīng)在惡作劇地在Bonnegut網(wǎng)站發(fā)表開場白演說，并被廣為流傳，所以大多數(shù)人不會懷疑這篇演說的真實性。

1997年他的一本傳記名字就叫做《拉里?埃里森和上帝的區(qū)別：上帝認為他不是拉里?埃里森》。而拉里?埃里森寫那么一篇諷刺性的文章的初衷是因為他生活無羈，且是一個三次結婚三次離婚的億萬富翁。

事實上，埃里森并沒有在耶魯大學作過演講，也沒有在其他地方作過這樣的演講。

到了這里，事實似乎真相大白。但是，還是有網(wǎng)友爭相轉載Larry. Ellison的這篇演講稿，并且稱他為“最勇敢的演講人”。演講稿的“讀大學無用論”也被很多人認同。

也許，在如今大學生就業(yè)率下降、投入與產(chǎn)出嚴重不平衡的今天，這篇演講稿的真實性已經(jīng)不再重要，重要的是它說出了很多大學生心中的疑惑與吶喊。

當然，讀者們如果有興趣的話，也可以試著幫忙找找這篇演講稿的視頻或者音頻。