I actually got a natural high and a good mood for the entire day, since I remember seeing all of this matrix text in class, and here I'm all like, 'I know kung fu.'" (Laughter) We get a lot of feedback along those lines.
The poem was very indignant, and mainly exaggerated, but the only spoken-word poetry that I had seen up until that point was mainly indignant, so I thought that's what was expected of me.
I mean, when I'm in an elevator all alone, I do all sorts of weird things, but then other people get on board and I stop doing those things because I don't want to bother them, or, frankly, scare them.
And the pencil's really a thing that, I think, the average user has never thought twice about, how it's made or why it's made the way it is, because it's just always been that way.
We make thousands of them all the time, and yet, language is getting in there and fussing even with these tiny little perceptual decisions that we make.
And the people who provide those capabilities to us -- the YouTubes, the Facebooks, the Twitters and TEDs -- are in the business of having to police us, or being on the hook for contributory infringement.
And if we can quiet it down and walk in and say, "I'm going to do this, " we look up and the critic that we see pointing and laughing, 99 percent of the time is who?
Because back to the whole relationship issue, what they figured out through this exercise was that a simple mistake can tell me what you're not, or it can remind me of why I should love you.
では役割の変化があると 何が起きるのか？ そういうことを 些細な形で やったとき 何が起きるのか？
So what happens, okay, you take a role change, what happens if you do that at a really minimal level, like this tiny manipulation, this tiny intervention?
And he says, "I was just thinking that maybe we could take care of it here in Fargo, " which everyone, including the audience, interprets as a veiled bribe.
And I basically decided to photograph anyone in this country that was not 100 percent straight, which, if you don't know, is a limitless number of people.
私は 忘れてしまうことに うんざりしていますが これは 簡単なので そういう心配はありません
Personally, I'm tired of forgetting, and this is a really easy thing to do.
And so she kept those things in her desk, and years later, after she retired, I watched some of those same kids come through and say to her, "You know, Ms. Walker, you made a difference in my life.
Now I use this word "ignorance, " of course, to be at least in part intentionally provocative, because ignorance has a lot of bad connotations and I clearly don't mean any of those.
You're part of a generation that grew up with the Internet, and it seems as if you become offended at almost a visceral level when you see something done that you think will harm the Internet.
そこには確かに 愛があります そして自分の周りには どうして そういう人が いないのかと思いました
There's a love there, and I wanted to know why is it that I don't have people that I work with like that?
I've had the great honor of getting to meet some of these, who we would call heroes, who have put themselves and put their lives at risk to save others, and I asked them, "Why would you do it?
(Laughter) And so one theory is that God was so bored with pondering the puzzle of His own existence that He created the world just to distract himself.
So as soon as I see a question about things I'm afraid of, which might be earthquakes, other religions, maybe I'm afraid of terrorists or sharks, anything that makes me feel, assume you're going to exaggerate the problem.
But that's fine with me, because it sorts the wheat from the chaff, and I can find which people are genuine and true and I can pick these people as my friends.
He then concluded that maybe bees had the organs of both sexes in the same individual, which is not that far-fetched, some animals do that, but he never really did get it figured out.
And at the same time, I thought about this massive group of people I knew: writers, editors, journalists, graduate students, assistant professors, you name it.
And over the years, I've learned something about people whose experiences read like a patchwork quilt, that makes me stop and fully consider them before tossing their resumes away.
OK, we've discovered the particles, but unless you understand the underlying reason for that pattern -- you know, why it's built the way it is -- really you've done stamp collecting. You haven't done science.
And a real extrovert came in beside me -- not right in my cubicle, but in the next cubicle over -- and I could hear various evacuatory noises, which we hate -- even our own, that's why we flush during as well as after.
But keeping salaries secret does exactly that, and it's a practice as old as it is common, despite the fact that in the United States, the law protects an employee's right to discuss their pay.
（笑） ただ 私たちは繋がることで 成功を目指していますし 優れた指導者とは そういうものなのです
(Laughter) But we are all connected to succeed, and good leaders do this.
But these letters serve a purpose, which is that they tell your friends and family what you did in your personal life that mattered to you over the year.
But once you realize that people -- that this world was built by people no smarter than you, then you can reach out and touch those walls and even put your hand through them and realize that you have the power to change it.
I thought if I put on philosophical tweets out there people will think I'm with it, but some of the responses I got from those tweets were extremely confusing acronyms which I didn't understand. You know?
(Laughter) And you can imagine what that would be like in your own life -- and I know this is true of some of you -- if you were drinking all day -- (Laughter) and then you switched from a depressant to a stimulant in your life.
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I actually got a natural high and a good mood for the entire day, since I remember seeing all of this matrix text in class, and here I'm all like, 'I know kung fu.'" (Laughter) We get a lot of feedback along those lines. 