美国大学毕业季节临近，时代周刊网站10日公布了美国最著名的10名从大学辍学的成功人士，其中比尔盖茨位居榜首。

Top 10 College Dropouts

Graduation season is upon us, and everyone from President Obama to John Grisham is delivering commencement speeches across the country. TIME looks at some of the most successful people to never receive their sheepskins.

哈佛大学的一份学生报纸《哈佛深红报》将比尔盖茨称为“哈佛最成功的辍学生”，他在1973年秋季进入哈佛大学学习，两年后辍学，和儿时伙伴保罗艾伦一同创办了微软公司。在离开哈佛30多年后的2007年，这位微软创始人终于获得了母校授予的荣誉博士学位。


位居榜单第二的是苹果CEO斯蒂夫?乔布斯，当年乔布斯刚刚踏进里德学院（Reed College ）六个月，他就因为工薪阶层的养父母财务紧张而辍学。但他最终创立了苹果、NeXT电脑公司和皮克斯动画工作室，改变了现代文化的前景。

　　位居第三的是美国著名建筑师弗兰克 劳埃德赖特，时代给他的评语是花在造大学建筑上的时间远远超过在其中就读的时间，1886年他进入威斯康辛麦迪逊大学学习，一年后离开。其生平作品超过五百件，其中纽约古根海姆博物馆（Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum）便是其颇有名气的作品之一。

两次从哈佛辍学：建筑师、思想家、发明家、未来学家

Buckminster Fuller — architect, thinker, inventor, futurist, college dropout. Expelled from Harvard not once, but twice, Fuller's post-dropout period was anything but successful. He suffered a string of bad business ventures and years of anguish following his daughter's death. While Fuller could have settled for a less than extraordinary life — he even contemplated suicide — he refused to buck to the bevy of bad breaks. At the age of 32, Fuller set out on a one man quest to change the world for the better. His unorthodox ideas such as the dymaxion (a portmanteau of dynamic maximum tension) house and dymaxion car captivated the nation, while his iconic geodesic domes would bring him international fame and recognition.

曾执导过包括《泰坦尼克号》、《阿凡达》等影片的著名导演詹姆斯.卡梅隆名列第五。卡梅隆出生在加拿大，长大后移居加拿大，曾就读于美国的Fullerton College 物理专业，但很快辍学， 当过货车司机。

Facebook的创始人Mark Zuckerberg也是哈佛学生，Facebook起初是开发给哈佛学生的，后逐渐扩展到全美校园以及民间。Facebook是继Google之后又一商业奇迹。Mark本人也被福布斯评为最年轻的富豪，2010年拥有40亿美元的财富。

可惜的是，Facebook和twitter, youtube这些获取巨大成功的商业奇迹和创新在国内竟被挡在墙外了。 

好莱坞著名演员汤姆.汉克斯位列第七。 曾在加州州立大学Sacramento就读。

哈里森·福特Harrison Ford，主演过《星球大战》和《夺宝奇兵》。曾在Ripon College就读哲学专业，毕业前辍学。

Apparently a college degree isn't a prerequisite for flying the Millennium Falcon. Harrison Ford, of Star Wars and Indiana Jones fame, majored in philosophy at Ripon College, but dropped out shortly before graduation. He subsequently landed several small parts in Hollywood productions, but unhappy with such minor roles, turned to a career in professional carpentry instead. Almost ten years later, he would co-star in George Lucas' 1973 graduation night comedy American Graffiti and subsequently joined Lucas in a galaxy far, far away in the 1977 blockbuster Star Wars.

这位是现在很火的Lady Gaga,曾在纽约大学就读。

Before she was a Gaga, she was a Germanotta. Born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, the artist better known as Lady Gaga attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, but dropped out after just a year to pursue her music career full time. She broke onto the New York club scene with her burlesque performances and was signed to Interscope Records by the age of 20. Her 2008 debut album, The Fame, has had the world going gaga for Gaga ever since.

位列十大榜单最后的是高尔夫球手老虎?伍兹，老虎一开始还选择一边打业余高尔球赛，一边在斯坦福大学学习经济学专业。时代评语说，或许是经济学课本的“机会成本”概念给了他启发，两年后他就辍学成为了专业选手。在职业高峰时期，其年收入最高达一亿美元以上。 

以上10大辍学名人中有3人从世界顶级学府--哈佛大学辍学，斯坦福和纽约大学各有1名。10人中有3位商界领袖（盖茨/乔布斯/Mark），3位演艺界人士（汤姆汉克斯/Lady Gaga/哈里森福特）。可见读什么大学和取得什么样的成就没有必然的联系，以上辍学者的成功之道无非是找到了自己爱好所在并坚持不放弃。另外，我们也可以看出美国社会的开放与包容，为不同的人创造了不同的成才的机会，这也是为什么全球最具创新的公司基本都出现在美国。

反观我们，可能目前仅仅只有韩寒可以作为辍学成功的代表。