扎克伯格稱放棄寫代碼而當CEO有點難過!

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg says he misses his days as an engineer and coder.

臉書創始人馬克·扎克伯格表示，他很懷念自己當工程師和程序員的日子。

While the 32-year-old billionaire tech CEO was visiting Nigeria last week, he spoke publicly about how he applied his engineering mindset to help build Facebook (FB, Tech30), a company that's now worth north of $360 billion.

這位32歲的億萬富翁、科技公司的CEO在上週訪問尼日利亞時談到了自己是怎樣利用工程師思維幫助建立了今天身家已經超過3600億美元的Facebook的。

But he also admitted giving up coding to manage his company was "a little sad".

不過，他也承認，放棄寫代碼，變身公司的管理者，讓他有“一點難過”。

"There is an elegance to writing code that I miss," Zuckerberg said during a QA session with tech entrepreneurs and developers in Lagos, Nigeria. "The code always does what you want -- and people don't."

在尼日利亞首都拉各斯，扎克伯格在一羣企業家和開發者進行的提問回答環節時表示：“我真的懷念寫代碼的那種優雅。你想做什麼，代碼都能夠幫你做到，而人就不一定了。”

His comments were met with a laugh from the crowd. But he quickly pointed out that people can surprise you by going above and beyond expectations, too.

他的這番話語引起了人羣的大笑。不過扎克伯格隨即補充說道，人也有人的好處，因爲有時候，他們的表現會大大超過預期，帶來驚喜。

Zuckerberg explained to the crowd that his engineering background helped to grow the company because he often broke down big problems into small steps.

扎克伯格向人們解釋稱，自己的工程師背景之所以能夠幫助他創業，是因爲他經常將大問題拆分爲一個個小步驟。

This applied to everything from writing code and hiring people to managing teams.

從寫代碼或到僱員工構建團隊，以及其他所有事，都是這個道理。

His visit included a trip to a Yaba, known as the Silicon Valley of Nigeria, where he toured a coding camp for kids and met with about 50 local startup founders and developers at CcHub, a local innovation center.

他本次非洲之行還將到尼日利亞的硅谷——Yaba，在那兒他爲兒童開辦了一個代碼挑戰營，還會與來自當地創新中心CCHUB的約50家初創企業家會面。

Zuckerberg has been increasingly involved in African initiatives this year.

扎克伯格與非洲的關係正變得越來越密切。

In June, his foundation -- the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative -- made a multi-million dollar investment in Andela, a two-year-old startup that trains African software developers and gives them full-time roles at international companies.

今年7月，他的基金會Chan Zuckerberg Initiative給一家名爲Andela、已經成立兩年的初創公司投資幾百萬美元。該公司的業務主要是培訓非洲的軟件開發者，然後幫助他們在國際企業找到全職工作。

Zuckerberg has also put his weight behind a program called "Free Basics," which provides free internet access to cellphone users in under-served countries, including Zambia, Tanzania and Kenya.

扎克伯格還大力推行他的“Free Basics”計劃，這計劃旨在爲服務欠發達的國家如贊比亞、坦桑尼亞和肯尼亞等的手機用戶提供免費互聯網接入。