You know, in the Middle Ages, in England, when you met a very poor person, that person would be described as an "unfortunate" 你知道，在中世纪的英国，当你遇见一个非常穷苦的人，你会认为他“不走运”， literally, somebody who had not been
And yes, there was a lot of conflict and debate and argument, 当然，这其中有很多的矛盾和辩论， but that allowed everyone around the table to be creative, to solve the problem, and to change the device. 不过这使得所有人都变得有创造
I'm not quite sure why you decide not to do it. You're too lazy to do it. It's too hard. 我不太确定你为什么决定不去做。你太懒了。这事太难。 You're afraid if you look for your passion and don't find it, you'll feel like you're
One car emits four tons. And actually 700 and change million cars today emit 2.8 billion tons of CO2. 一辆汽车排放4吨二氧化碳。现在的7亿辆汽车排放28亿吨二氧化碳。 That's, in the additive, about 25 percent of our problem. 那只是我们所有
And it wasn't because of my attending; he was a doll. 而这也不是因为我的主治；他人非常好。 He talked to the family, and I'm quite sure that he smoothed things over and made sure that I didn't get sued. 他和那家人好好的谈过。我确定他为
In the time that passes between when I was a kid in high school and when I started teaching, 在过去的这几年间，从我还在念高中到我开始教书的时候， we really see the advent of the Internet. 我们真的亲眼目睹网络的发展。 Right about the time th
Imagine that when you walked in here this evening, 想象一下当你在今晚步入这里时， you discovered that everybody in the room looked almost exactly the same: ageless, raceless, generically good-looking. 你发现所有在场的人看上去几乎
Fast-forward to Pennsylvania, where I find myself today. 快进到宾州，我现在住的地方。 I teach at the Science Leadership Academy, 我在科学领导学院教书， which is a partnership school between the Franklin Institute and the scho
It's a system in which there are two kinds of physicians -- those who make mistakes and those who don't, 在这个制度当中，只有两种人 -- 犯错的不犯错的， those who can't handle sleep deprivation and those who can, those who
I'll give you an analogy. 让我给你一个例子。 Do you remember that Loony Tunes cartoon where there's this pathetic coyote who's always chasing and never catching a roadrunner? 你记得卡通里那个总是在追逐却从未抓到猎物的土狼吗？ In prett
And I had to quit and come and do this thing called A Better Place. 我于是退出了SAP的CEO的竞选，开始了这个名为“更美好的地方”的方案。 We then decided to scale it up. We went to other countries. 然后我们决定把这个方案扩大。我们去了别的国家。 As I said w
But I want to make it clear: there is no such thing as silence. 我要说清楚的是，并不存在一种叫做无声的东西。 And I know this sounds like the most pretentious TED Talk statement ever. 我知道这说法听起来差不多是TED里最自负的。 But even if you
We heard a brilliant simple solution to not killing people in surgery, which is, have a checklist. 我们听说了一个简单有效的方法，来降低手术中病人的死亡率，就是准备一个事项清单。 You can't fix that problem without addressing shame, 不解决羞耻感就不
And I went to talk to them about certain of the great tragedies of Western art. 我去找他们聊聊西方艺术中最伟大的几个悲剧故事。 I wanted to see how they would seize the bare bones of certain stories, 我想知道他们会如何露骨地以新闻的方式， if t
So I've mentioned WikiLeaks, because surely what could be more open than publishing all the material? 我刚提到了维基解密，因为，还有比它更加公开的么？ Because that is what Julian Assange did. 因为朱利安阿桑奇就这么做了。 He wasn't content
But of course, life is more than just exotic chemistry. 但是当然，生命不仅仅是奇异的化学物质。 How do you stabilize those huge molecules that seem to be viable? 那是怎么稳定那些大量的、似乎有存活的分子的呢？ Well, it's here that life introduc
And you sometimes need to be shocked out of that. 而有的时候我们需要把这种感觉抖掉。 Now I'm not going to pretend that this is easy. It isn't easy. It's incredibly painful. 现在我不想假装这是件容易的事情。这并不容易。这会是个痛苦的过程。 And since I
And this, then, led to my big questions. And they're the same ones that I have today. 这让我想到一个大问题。一些我今日仍然在想的问题。 And they are: why do things happen, and how do things happen? 为什么事情会发生，它们是怎么发生的？ And the
But I learned what opportunity cost is. 但（通过这件事）我学会了什么是“机会成本”。 And along the way, the map of my life got better. 就这样，我人生的地图慢慢完整起来。 It got bigger; it contained more places. 版图不断扩大，地方也不断增多。 There were m
We're hardwired to become leaders of the pack. 我们天生就喜欢做领导。 It's starts really, really early. How early? 这从很早很早就开始了。多早？ Well babies will fake a cry, pause, wait to see who's coming and then go right ba
