Don't underestimate the power of words. 不要低估了语言的力量。 Saying to Thordis that I raped her changed my accord with myself, as well as with her. 向Thordis承认是我侵犯了她，改变了我的自我认知，也改变了我对她的认知。 But most importantly,
One of the reasons NEOWISE is so valuable is that it sees the sky in the thermal infrared. NEOWISE有这样高价值的原因之一便是它使用红外感应观测天空。 That means that instead of seeing the sunlight that asteroids reflect, NEOWI
And not to imitate one of your previous Class Day speakers Stephen Colbert, 我不打算效仿你们往届的毕业日演讲人史蒂芬·科拜尔， you know you could construe this as an insult to America. 因为你会把这理解为对美国的冒犯。 I mean we were flying o
Stay away from affects. Better yet, be the left shark. 不要受他人影响。最好是做左边的那条鲨鱼。 Remember last Super Bowl, when the Patriots won? 还记得去年的超级碗吗，爱国者队赢的那场？ Yeah well... well you may be thinking of Tom Brady's d
I'd like to reimagine education. The last year has seen the invention of a new four-letter word. 我想要重新定义教育。去年出现了一个新的四字单词。 It starts with an M. MOOC: massive open online courses. 以M开头的缩写词MOOC：大规模网络公开课。
Did Felix make it? OK, we're gonna leave him suspended in free fall for a minute and come back to him. 费利克斯成功了吗？好吧，我们先不管他，让他再做一会儿自由落体运动，然后再回过头来讲他。 In the meantime, I'm very excited to be here -- on so
you can isolate it, and it works very much like carbon fiber. 你可以对它进行分离，它的性质跟碳纤维非常相似。 So, take that from a tree, form it into fibers, and then those fibers can strengthen things, such as airplanes, bu
Now, I don't know whether your President knows what I was going to say today, 现在，我不知道校长是否了解我今天演讲的话题， but I know that he had some kind words for you all about this issue. 但是我相信他肯定给你们说过一些相关的话语。 But it's
But consider the following: if the world as a whole were as wealthy as the United States is now 但是，请大家考虑一下：如果整个世界都象现在的美国一样富裕， there would be more than five times as many scientists and engineers contr
And I know that these days, that can seem counterintuitive, because we live in such an instantaneous age. 我明白现在这看起来有悖于我们的本意，因为我们生活在一个瞬息万变的时代。 We want everything right away -- whether it's an Uber or y
When I became attorney general, I could look at the system as a whole, 后来我成为司法部长，我可以全面的观察整个司法系统， and what surprised me is that I found that that was exactly how we were doing it across the entire syst
And we use words, slippery words, like algorithm. 我们使用词汇，花哨的词汇，比如说算法这个词。 Okay, now if you hear someone use the word 'algorithm', 如果你听到有人用“算法”这个词， and they're not a mathematics professor or a computer
What strikes me about Justine's story is also the fact that if you Google her name today, 贾丝婷的故事最触动我的是你如今若在谷歌去搜她的名字， this story covers the first 100 pages of Google results -- there is nothing else ab
OK, equation number one: Hard work plus bravery equals success. 好的，第一个等式：勤奋加勇敢等于成功。 However you define success, set your sights high. Be a hard grader on yourself. 无论你如何定义成功，都要抬高眼界。要对自己严厉一些。 When I st
One is that we should avoid an arms race and lethal autonomous weapons. 第一，我们需要避免军备竞赛，以及致命的自动化武器出现。 The idea here is that any science can be used for new ways of helping people or new ways of harming
They're spitting out the colored algae that lives in their skin, 它们吐出位于它们皮肤表面的有色藻类， and the clear bleached tissue that's left usually starves to death and then rots away. 留下来的白化后的组织往往会饥饿而死然后被海水冲走。 The
So, so far I've talked about rules for insects and for fish and for robots, 那么到目前为止，我谈到了昆虫、鱼群还有机器人的各种行为规则， but what about the rules that apply to our own human collective? 但是那些适用于人类集体的规则呢？ And the las
The experience of looking up and knowing that the sky you're looking at surrounds every known living thing in the universe is very profound. 仰望天空，并认识到你正观看的天空包围着宇宙中所有的已知生物，这种感受意义深远。 Think about that fo
The story we've just relayed is unique, and yet it is so common with sexual violence being a global pandemic. 我们接连讲述的这个故事是独一无二的，但是在性暴力正成为一个全球性现象的背景下又是如此平常。 But it doesn't have to be that way. 但并不一定会如此
I'm an MIT professor, but I do not design buildings or computer systems. 我是麻省理工学院的教授，但我并不设计建筑或计算机系统。 Rather, I build body parts, bionic legs that augment human walking and running. 确切来说，我建造身体部位，增加人的行走
