Hey. I wanna start today -- talk about the structure of a polypeptide. (Laughter)

今天我要來談談『多肽』的分子結構

I get a lot of people asking me, in terms of "Lost," you know,

很多人問我關於Lost檔案這部影集

"What the hell's that island?" You know,

『那座小島到底是怎麼回事』

it's usually followed by,

通常他們會接著問

"No, seriously, what the hell is that island?"

『不, 說真的, 那座島到底是怎麼一回事？』

(Laughter)

（笑聲）

Why so many mysteries? What is it about mystery that I seem to be drawn to?

為什麼有那麼多謎團,到底是什麼讓我如此的著迷

And I was thinking about this, what to talk about at TED.

我開始思考要在TED談些什麼

When I talked to the kind rep from TED, and I said,

當我跟TED的代表聊起時, 我說

"Listen, you know, what should I talk about?"

『嘿, 你覺得我應該說些什麼才好？』

He said, "Don't worry about it. Just be profound."

他回道：『別擔心, 講些意義深遠的就好』

(Laughter) And I took enormous comfort in that.

我聽完鬆了一大口氣

So thank you, if you're here.

如果你在這場的話, 謝謝你喔

I was trying to think, what do I talk about? It's a good question.

我在想應該來講些什麼. 這是個好問題

Why do I do so much stuff that involves mystery? And I started trying to figure it out.

為什麼我做了那麼多有關神祕事物的東西？我開始探尋其原因

And I started thinking about why do I do any of what I do,

我開始思考我為什麼要做這些事

and I started thinking about my grandfather.

然後我想起了我的祖父

I loved my grandfather. Harry Kelvin was his name,

我很愛我的祖父. 他叫做哈利凱文

my mother's father. He died in 1986. He was an amazing guy.

是我的外祖父. 他在1986年逝世.是個非常棒的人

And one of the reasons he was amazing:

他的其中一項事蹟就是

After World War II he began an electronics company.

在世界第二大戰之後,他成立一家電子公司

He started selling surplus parts, kits, to schools and stuff.

他開始把一些多餘的零件,工具賣給學校之類的

So he had this incredible curiosity. As a kid I saw him

他擁有非常強烈的好奇心. 當我還小, 看著他

come over to me with radios and telephones and all sorts of things.

拿著各式收音機,電話與其他電器走到我身邊

And he'd open them up, he'd unscrew them, and reveal the inner workings --

然後他會將它們一個個打開, 鬆開螺絲, 展露其內部構造

which many of us, I'm sure, take for granted.

我想這些對我們來說都是很理所當然的

But it's an amazing gift to give a kid.

但這對一個孩子而言是非常棒的禮物

To open up this thing and show how it works and why it works and what it is.

去拆解一個機器, 展現其運作結構以及原理

He was the ultimate deconstructer, in many ways.

在許多方面來看, 他都是個解構達人

And my grandfather was a kind of guy who would not only take things apart,

但我外祖父不僅只會拆解東西

but he got me interested in all sorts of different odd crafts,

他還讓我對不同類型的奇特手工藝深感興趣

like, you know, printing, like the letter press. I'm obsessed with printing.

像是印刷, 還有活字版印刷. 我深深地為印刷著迷

I'm obsessed with silk screening and bookbinding and box making.

我也非常喜愛絹印, 書籍裝訂以及盒子製作

When I was a kid, I was always, like, taking apart boxes and stuff.

當我還是個孩子時, 我總愛把盒子之類的東西拆解開來

And last night in the hotel, I took apart the Kleenex box.

昨晚在飯店時, 我把一個衛生紙盒拆開來

I was just looking at it. And I'm telling you ... (Laughter) It's a beautiful thing.

然後我就這麼盯著它看. 我告訴你們, 這其實是件很美妙的事

I swear to God. I mean, when you look at the box, and you sort of see how it works.

我發誓, 當你看著這個盒子, 你其實就看到它是怎麼構成的

Rives is here, and I met him years ago at a book fair; he does pop-up books.

Rives今天也在這裡. 我幾年前在一場書展碰到他. 他是做立體書的

And I'm obsessed with, like, engineering of paper.

我覺得那真得很吸引人, 就像個紙張工程

But like, the scoring of it, the printing of it, where the thing gets glued,

像是在紙張上做記號, 將其印刷出來, 接著上膠裝訂

you know, the registration marks for the ink. I just love boxes.

就是墨水的標誌記號. 我真的很愛盒子

My grandfather was sort of the guy who, you know,

我外祖父就是會

kind of got me into all sorts of these things.

讓我對這些事物深深著迷

He would also supply me with tools.

他也會提供我用具

He was this amazing encourager -- this patron, sort of, to make stuff.

他非常的鼓勵我. 資助我讓我發揮

And he got me a Super 8 camera when I was 10 years old.

當我10歲時, 他便給了我一台Super 8攝影機

And in 1976, that was sort of an anomaly,

在當時1976年, 這是非常少見

to be a 10-year-old kid that had access to a camera.

會給一個10歲孩童一台攝影機

And you know, he was so generous; I couldn't believe it.

但他非常的慷慨, 我簡直無法想像

He wasn't doing it entirely without some manipulation.

但他當然不是完全出於自願

I mean, I would call him, and I'd be like,

我是說, 我會打電話給他說

"Listen, Grandpa, I really need this camera.

『外公, 我真的很需要這台攝影機』

You don't understand. This is, like, you know, I want to make movies.

『你不了解. 我以後想要拍電影』

I'll get invited to TED one day. This is like -- " (Laughter)

『說不定還會被TED邀請去演講 』

And you know, and my grandmother was the greatest.

但我外婆才是最棒的

Because she'd be like, you know -- she'd get on the phone.

因為她會湊到電話旁

She'd be like, "Harry, it's better than the drugs. He should be doing -- "

然後說著：『哈利, 這總比嗑藥好, 他應該...』

She was fantastic. (Laughter)

她實在是太棒了

So I found myself getting this stuff,

所以我開始沉迷於這些事物

thanks to her assist, and suddenly, you know,

還好有她的幫忙, 而且突然之間

I had a synthesizer when I was 14 years old -- this kind of stuff.

在我14歲時, 我有了音響

And it let me make things, which, to me, was sort of the dream.

而這讓我能夠做, 對我當時而言是非常遙不可及的東西

He sort of humored my obsession to other things too, like magic.

他也讓我對其他事物開始產生興趣, 例如魔術

The thing is, we'd go to this magic store in New York City called Lou Tannen's Magic.

有次我們到紐約市的一家魔術道具店--魯泰南魔術店

It was this great magic store. It was a crappy little building in Midtown,

那間店很棒, 是位在市中心裡殘破不堪的小店

but you'd be in the elevator, the elevator would open --

當你搭電梯而上, 電梯門開了

there'd be this little, small magic store. You'd be in the magic store.

映入眼簾的一家小魔術店, 你就身在一個魔術店裡

And it was just, it was a magical place.

那是個很神奇的地方

So I got all these sort of magic tricks. Oh, here. I'll show you.

我在那裡看到許多魔術伎倆. 我來表演給大家看

This is the kind of thing. So it would be like, you know. Right?

就像這樣的東西, 然後它會變不見

Which is good, but now I can't move.

這樣是很好啦, 但我現在無法動彈

Now, I have to do this, the rest of the thing, like this.

現在我得完成其餘的步驟, 像這樣

I'm like, "Oh, wow. Look at my computer over there!" (Laughter)

『噢! 我的電腦在那呢!』

Anyway, so one of the things that I bought at the magic store was this:

我在那家魔術店買的一項東西就是:

Tannen's Mystery Magic Box.

泰南的神秘魔法盒

The premise behind the mystery magic box was the following:

這個神秘魔法盒子背後的旨要

15 dollars buys you 50 dollars worth of magic.

就是花15元就買到價值50元的魔術

Which is a savings. (Laughter)

真的相當划算

Now, I bought this decades ago and I'm not kidding.

早在幾十年前，我就買了這個盒子

If you look at this, you'll see it's never been opened.

但是我從未打開過

But I've had this forever.

但我已經擁有它那麼久了

Now, I was looking at this, it was in my office, as it always is, on the shelf,

我會盯著它看, 擺在辦公室裡的櫃子上

and I was thinking, why have I not opened this?

然後我不禁自問, 為什麼我不把盒子打開?

And why have I kept it? Because I'm not a pack rat. I don't keep everything

我為什麼要留著它, 我又不是收藏狂, 我不會把東西都留起來

but for some reason I haven't opened this box.

但不知怎麼地, 我從未想要把它打開

And I felt like there was a key to this, somehow,

我覺得那似乎是一個契機

in talking about something at TED that I haven't discussed before,

可以來TED談談我未曾談過的事

and bored people elsewhere.

也沒有在其他地方拿去煩別人的

So I thought, maybe there's something with this. I started thinking about it.

所以我想也許這有什麼意義, 我開始思索

And there was this giant question mark. I love the design, for what it's worth,

盒子上有個很大的問號, 我喜歡它的設計

of this thing. And I started thinking, why haven't I opened it?

我開始想, 那我為何不打開它呢?

And I realized that I haven't opened it because it represents something important

然後我了解到我沒有打開這盒子, 是因為它代表了某種重要的意義

-- to me. It represents my grandfather.

對我來說, 它代表了我的外公

Am I allowed to cry at TED? Because -- no, I'm not going to cry. But -- (Laughter)

我可以在TED這裡大哭嗎? 噢, 我不會哭啦

-- the thing is, that it represents infinite possibility.

但它其實代表了無限的可能

It represents hope. It represents potential.

它代表了希望, 代表了潛力

And what I love about this box,

這也就是我喜愛這個盒子的原因

and what I realize I sort of do in whatever it is that I do,

我發現我所做這一切的原因就是

is I find myself drawn to infinite possibility, that sense of potential.

我發現自己深深著迷於無限的可能性與潛力

And I realize that mystery is the catalyst for imagination.

我了解到未知其實就是激發想像力的導引

Now, it's not the most ground-breaking idea,

這並不是什麼石破天驚的想法

but when I started to think that maybe there are times when mystery

但當我開始思考也許有時未知的力量

is more important than knowledge, I started getting interested in this.

比知識還要強大, 我開始對此產生興趣

And so I started thinking about "Lost," and the stuff that we do,

所以我開始發想關於Lost檔案及其他我們所做的

and I realized, oh my God, mystery boxes are everywhere in what I do!

我了解到, 噢天啊, 在我所致力的一切裡, 到處都是神祕盒子

In how -- in the creation of "Lost," Damon Lindelof and I,

在發想Lost檔案初期, 我和達蒙林德洛夫

who created the show with me, we were basically tasked with creating this series

我們一起製作這部影集, 在初期是困難重重的

that we had very little time to do. We had 11 and a half weeks

沒有什麼時間去做, 我們只有約11個禮拜

to write it, cast it, crew it, shoot it, cut it, post it, turn in a two-hour pilot.

把劇本寫好, 選演員, 找團隊, 拍攝, 剪輯成兩小時的首播集

So it was not a lot of time. And that sense of possibility -- what could this thing be?

所以真的沒多少時間去做.不知道事情會變得如何？

There was no time to develop it.

我們並沒有其他時間將其發展下去

I'm sure you're all familiar with those people

我想大家都已經都很熟悉

who tell you what you can't do and what you should change.

總會有人告訴你哪些事不能做, 應該改變什麼

And there was no time for that, which is kind of amazing.

但已經沒有時間去調整, 其實也很神奇

And so we did this show, and for those of you who, you know, who haven't seen it,

我們製作了這部影集, 對那些沒有看過的人

or don't know it, I can show you this one little clip from the pilot,

或沒聽過的人, 我在這裡秀一段首集的片段

just to show you some stuff that we did.

讓大家對我們所做的東西更為了解

Claire: Help! Please help me! Help me! Help me!

救命阿！救命！

Jack: Get him out of here! Get him away from the engine! Get him out of here!

把他帶離這裡, 不要待在引擎旁 , 快把他移開

C: I'm having contractions!

我好像快要生了

J: How many months pregnant are you?

你現在幾個月的身孕了？

C: I'm only eight months.

只有八個月

J: And how far apart are they coming?

陣痛的時間多久了？

C: I don't know. I think it just happened.

我不知道, 我想是剛剛才開始的

Man: Hey! Hey! Hey, get away from --

嘿！趕快離開

JJA: Now, 10 years ago, if we wanted to do that, we'd have to kill a stuntman.

十年前如果我們要拍這場戲, 可能就得殺一位替身

We'd actually -- (Laughter)

事實上...

it would be harder. It would take -- Take 2 would be a bitch.

這會更加的困難, 如果還NG就完了

So the amazing thing was, we were able to do this thing.

神奇的地方在於我們可以完成這樣的事

And part of that was the amazing availability of technology,

部分原因得歸功於現代科技的發達

knowing we could do anything. I mean, we could never have done that.

讓我們無所不能, 從前我們是無法做到的

We might have been able to write it; we wouldn't have been able to depict it

以前我們也許可以描述出來, 但我們無法精準的體現

like we did. And so part of the amazing thing for me is in the creative process,

我覺得另一個神奇的是創意的產出過程

technology is, like, mind-blowingly inspiring to me.

對我來說, 科技激發我強烈的靈感

I realize that that blank page is a magic box, you know?

我了解到空白頁其實就是個神祕盒子

It needs to be filled with something fantastic.

得填上許多絕妙的點子

I used to have the "Ordinary People" script that I'd flip through.

我曾經翻閱電影『凡夫俗子』的劇本

The romance of the script was amazing to me; it would inspire me.

電影裡的浪漫劇情讓我很感動, 激發了我

I wanted to try and fill pages with the same kind of

我曾試著想要寫出與那部電影具有相同精神

spirit and thought and emotion that that script did.

想法與情感的東西

You know, I love Apple computers. I'm obsessed.

我喜歡蘋果電腦, 我是個蘋果迷

So the Apple computer -- like those -- the PowerBook -- this computer, right,

蘋果電腦, 像這台Powerbook

it challenges me. It basically says,

讓我倍感威脅, 好像在對我說

what are you going to write worthy of me? (Laughter)

你能寫出什麼配的上我的東西？

I guess I feel this -- I'm compelled.

我想自己被奴役了

And I often am like, you know, dude, today I'm out. I got nothing. You know? (Laughter)

我常常會, 就像:老兄,我沒輒了, 我想不出來

So there's that. In terms of the content of it, you look at stories, you think,

關於事物的內容. 當你看到故事情節, 你會想

well, what are stories but mystery boxes?

故事不就是神祕盒子嗎？

There's a fundamental question -- in TV, the first act is called the teaser.

這是個非常根本的問題, 在電視圈, 第一幕就要夠吸引觀眾

It's literally the teaser. It's the big question.

基本上就是丟出一個問題

So you're drawn into it. Then of course,

來吸引觀眾

there's another question. And it goes on and on.

然後接著又會有另一個謎團, 不停地接踵而至

Look at "Star Wars." You got the droids; they meet the mysterious woman.

像『星際大戰』裡有機器人, 他們遇見了個神祕女性

Who's that? We don't know. Mystery box! You know?

那是誰, 我們不知道. 是神祕盒子！

Then you meet Luke Skywalker. He gets the Droid, you see the holographic image.

接著還有天行者, 他有了機器人, 然後我們就看到一幅立體影像

You learn, oh, it's a message, you know.

你才發覺, 噢！這是個寓意

She wants to, you know, find Obi Wan Kenobi. He's her only hope.

她想要找到歐比王肯諾比. 他是她唯一的希望

But who the hell's Obi Wan Kenobi? Mystery box!

但那個歐比王到底是誰？ 神祕盒子！

So then you go and he meets Ben Kenobi. Ben Kenobi is Obi Wan Kenobi.

然後他又遇見了班肯諾比. 班肯諾比就是歐比王肯諾比

Holy shit! You know -- so it keeps us --

老天啊！這讓我們...

(Laughter) -- have you guys not seen that?

你們難道沒看過嗎？

(Laughter) It's huge! Anyway --

這部片很紅耶

So there's this thing with mystery boxes that I started feeling compelled.

我覺得神祕盒子有某種力量驅動著我

Then there's the thing of mystery in terms of imagination --

有些事像神祕與想像

the withholding of information. You know,

都其實蘊含意義

doing that intentionally is much more engaging.

有目的性的去做而不僅僅只是參與而已

Whether it's like the shark in "Jaws"

像是電影『大白鯊』裡的鯊魚

-- if Spielberg's mechanical shark, Bruce, had worked,

如果史匹柏的機器鯊魚,布魯斯能動的話

it would not be remotely as scary; you would have seen it too much.

就不需要在遠處擺出嚇人的樣子, 也沒有太多鏡頭

In "Alien", they never really showed the alien: terrifying!

而在電影『異形』裡, 從未出現過異形的樣子: 太可怕了！

Even in a movie, like a romantic comedy, "The Graduate,"

甚至是在一部愛情喜劇電影『畢業生』

they're having that date, remember?

記得他們正在約會那一幕嗎？

And they're in the car, and it's loud, and so they put the top up.

他們坐在車裡, 周圍很吵雜, 所以他們把車頂拉起

They're in there -- you don't hear anything they're saying! You can't hear a word!

他們就坐在裡面,觀眾聽不到他們的談話, 什麼都聽不到

But it's the most romantic date ever. And you love it because you don't hear it.

但這卻是最浪漫的約會經典畫面, 你會愛這一幕是因為你聽不到

So to me, there's that.

所以這就是如此

And then, finally, there's this idea -- stretching the sort of paradigm a little bit --

所以就是這個概念- 將這個概念應用的稍為廣一點

but the idea of the mystery box.

但神秘盒子的概念

Meaning, what you think you're getting, then what you're really getting.

代表你將會得到, 而且後來真的成真了

And it's true in so many movies and stories.

這在很多電影與故事都能印證

And when you look at "E.T.," for example -- "E.T." is this, you know,

例如,『E.T.』這部電影, 這部電影是關於

unbelievable movie about what? It's about an alien who meets a kid, right?

一個外星人與小男孩相遇的故事對吧?

Well, it's not. "E.T." is about divorce. "E.T." is about a heartbroken,

但其實不是, 這部電影其實是關於離婚, 關於一個

divorce-crippled family, and ultimately, this kid who can't find his way.

破碎家庭, 後來這個孩子無法找到生命出口的故事

"Die Hard," right? Crazy, great, fun, action-adventure movie in a building.

『終極警探』是部很瘋狂, 精彩有趣的動作冒險電影

It's about a guy who's on the verge of divorce.

但他其實是在描述一名男子正處於離婚邊緣

He's showing up to L.A., tail between his legs.

垂頭喪氣地跑到洛杉磯

There are great scenes -- maybe not the most amazing dramatic

裡面有多精彩的畫面, 也許並不是史上

scenes in the history of time, but pretty great scenes.

最佳的場面, 但也很不錯了

There's a half an hour of investment in character before you get to the stuff

在真正好戲上場前, 該角色有約半小時的劇情鋪陳

that you're, you know, expecting.

你會有期待感

When you look at a movie like "Jaws,"

當在看像電影『大白鯊』

the scene that you expect -- we have the screen?

你會期待看到, 我們有畫面嗎?

These are the kind of, you know, scenes that you remember and expect from "Jaws."

這些就是我們會記得, 並且期待在『大白鯊』裡看到的場面

And she's being eaten; there's a shark.

有一隻鯊魚, 她會被吃掉

The thing about "Jaws" is, it's really about a guy

『大白鯊』這部電影其實是關於一名男子

who is sort of dealing with his place in the world -- with his masculinity,

身上背負著家庭, 要在世界上找自己的定位

with his family, how he's going to, you know, make it work in this new town.

以及他如何在新環境中使一切成功

This is one of my favorite scenes ever,

這是我最愛的一幕之一

and this is a scene that you wouldn't necessarily think of when you think of "Jaws."

我們通常不會把這一幕與『大白鯊』聯想在一起

But it's an amazing scene.

但這真的很棒