SDcamps•演辩营全国英语演讲与辩论赛
Then there is a coffee table. I also did a coffee table. It's called Be Here Now. It includes 330 compasses. 我还设计了这张茶几，起名叫“现在到此”。它里面装了330个指南针。 And we had custom espresso cups made that hide a magnet inside, and make those compasses go crazy, always centering on them. 我们还特制了特浓咖啡的小杯子，里面藏着磁铁，它使这些指南针拼命地动，全朝向咖...
How annoying would that be? "Must try harder." 多么不可思议。“你要努力学习”。 Being sent to bed by his dad, you know, to Shakespeare, "Go to bed, now! And put the pencil down." 你能想象他父亲边说边把他抱上床，“现在该睡觉了，放下笔。 "And stop speaking like that. It's confusing everybody." 别再写那些东西了，别人都看不懂。” Anyway, we moved fr...
And the idea of course was to make the type so precious that as an audience you would be in between 我们的构思，是把图样做得很精美，要令观赏者觉得难以决定， "Should I really take as much money as I can? Or should I leave the piece intact as it is right now?" 我是要把这些钱尽量拿走，还是保持图像完好无缺？ While we built all this up during that week, with the 100 vol...
The final thing is, again just to reiterate that there's this practical part, 最后，只是再一次重申，这个研究的实际应用方面， and so we've made these anti-quorum sensing molecules that are being developed as new kinds of therapeutics. 是我们已经制造出了这些“反聚量感应分子”，它们正作为新一代的疗法被开发研究中。 But then, to finish with a plug for all the good and mirac...
But what do you do? Fall down nine times, get up 10. 能怎么样呢？只有屡败屡战。 So, the following year, I set out and, fortunately, this time made it safely across to Hawaii. 第二年，我重新出发，我这次比较走运，安全地划渡到达了夏威夷。 But it was not without misadventure. 但也不是完全地一帆风顺。 My watermaker broke, only the most important piece of kit that I have on the bo...
We heard it in other forms. And who are these? Where are the different countries? 这是个老问题了。中间这些人是谁？他们在哪些国家？ I can show you Africa. This is Africa. 10% the world population, most in poverty. 先看非洲。非洲占世界人口的十分之一，多数是穷人。 This is OECD. The rich country. The country club of the U.N. 这个代表富裕的经合组织成员国，联合国俱乐部的会员。 And...
What do we do when we feel powerless? We do exactly the opposite. 那我们感到无助的时候呢？我们的行为正相反。 We close up. We wrap ourselves up. We make ourselves small. 我们封闭起来。我们把自己蜷起来。让自己变得小一点。 We don't want to bump into the person next to us. 我们不想碰到旁边的人。 So again, both animals and humans do the same thing. 这再一次证明，人类和动物都...
Let me make a comparison directly between the United States of America and Vietnam. 现在我们对比一下美国和越南。 1964. America had small families and long life; Vietnam had large families and short lives. 1964年的美国家庭小寿命长，越南的家庭大而寿命短。 And this is what happens: the data during the war indicate that even with all the death, there was an improvement of life e...
We know three things about intelligence. One, it's diverse. 培养人才有三个原则。第一，多样化。 We think about the world in all the ways that we experience it. 我们认知世界的角度不同。 We think visually, we think in sound, we think kinesthetically. 有的从视觉角度，有的从听觉角度，有的从美学角度。 We think in abstract terms, we think in movement. 有的从抽象的角度，有的从动...
A couple months went by, and I had just forgotten all about it. 几个月过去了，我全忘了有这么回事。 And I finally decided, oh gosh, I've got to go to the court and do this crazy case. 最后我决定，天哪，我得上庭去做这个案子。 And I got into my car and I was feeling really overwhelmed — overwhelmed. 我跳上车，觉得很紧张–非常紧张。 And I got in my car and I went ...
I sometimes get out of balance. I'll end with this story. 我常失去平衡。我想用个故事结束我的演讲。 I sometimes push too hard. I do get tired, as we all do. 我有时工作太多，很累，就像大家每个人一样。 Sometimes those ideas get ahead of our thinking in ways that are important. 有时这些想法太多而思考跟不上，结果是很严重的。 And I've been representing these kids who have ...
So, some of you most likely were here two years ago and saw the demo by Jeff Han, 你们当中有些人两年前在这里应该看过Jeff Han演示微软的Surface系统， or some of you may think, "Well, doesn't this look like the Microsoft Surface Table?" 你们可能觉得：这套系统跟Surface看起来很像？ And yes, you also interact using natural gestures, both hands, etc. 没错，这两套系统...
We're going to go on a dive to the deep sea, 好了，我们即将潜入海底深处。 and anyone that's had that lovely opportunity knows that for about two and half hours on the way down, 任何一个有过这种美妙机会的人都知道，在这两个半小时的下降过程中， it's a perfectly positively pitch-black world. 是一个完全漆黑的世界。 And we used to see the most mysterious animals out th...
And I'm going to admit something to you. I'm going to tell you something I probably shouldn't. 现在我想向大家坦白一件事。可能不该在这里说。 I know this might be broadcast broadly. 因为这个演讲是会到处播的。 But I'm 52 years old, and I'm going to admit to you that I've never had a drop of alcohol. 我今年五十二了，我要向大家承认，我从来没有喝过一滴酒。 ...
Death penalty in America is defined by error. 死刑在美国是常有差错的。 For every nine people who have been executed, we've actually identified one innocent person who's been exonerated and released from death row. 每九个被判死刑的人，有一个后来会被证明无罪被免死刑。 A kind of astonishing error rate — one out of nine people innocent. I mean, it's fascinating...
Because the chimpanzee would score half right if I gave them two bananas with Sri Lanka and Turkey. 因为黑猩猩能得一半的分数，如果我给它们两个分别标着斯里兰卡和土耳其的香蕉， They would be right half of the cases. But the students are not there. 它们会选对一半，但这些优等生们却做不到。 The problem for me was not ignorance; it was preconceived ideas. 这不是由于知识缺乏，而是...
But then if you think about it, the squid has this terrible problem 但是如果你再深入地想一下，这乌贼会有一个可怕的问题， because it's got this dying, thick culture of bacteria and it can't sustain that. 因为在它的体内，这些黏稠的细菌会不断的增长，死亡，乌贼无法维持这些细菌的生长。 And so what happens is every morning when the sun comes up the squid goes back to sleep...
Now none of this is to say that social skills are unimportant, and I'm also not calling for the abolishing of teamwork at all. 我所说的完全不是指社交技能不重要，我也不是在说团队精神没有存在价值。 The same religions who send their sages off to lonely mountain tops also teach us love and trust. 相同的宗教圣贤们今日仍旧教导我们爱与信。 And the problems that we are facing to...
I'm wearing a camera, just a simple web cam, a portable, battery-powered projection system with a little mirror. 我佩戴着一个相机，就是一个简单的网络摄像头，一个便携的用电池供电的投影仪和一个小镜子。 These components communicate to my cell phone in my pocket which acts as the communication and computation device. 这些组件跟我口袋中的手机进行通讯，手机作为一个通讯和计算的...
What I would hope that I could further argue to you is that this is the invention of multicellularity. 我希望能进一步地说服你们的是，这就是多细胞生物的起源。 Bacteria have been on the Earth for billions of years; humans, couple hundred thousand. 细菌已经生存在地球上数十亿年了。人类只有数十万年而已。 We think bacteria made the rules for how multicellular organization works. ...