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I've got a confession. I love looking through people's garbage.
坦白地說，我喜歡翻看別人丟棄的垃圾。
Now, it's not some creepy thing.
這可不是什么怪癖。
I'm usually just looking for old electronics, stuff I can take to my workshop and hack.
我通常只是尋找舊的電子器件，那些我可以帶回工作室進(jìn)行改裝的東西。
I do have a fetish for CD-ROM drives.
我尤其癡迷于光盤驅(qū)動器。
Each one's got three different motors, so now you can build things that move.
每一個驅(qū)動器都有三個不同的馬達(dá)，這樣你就能組裝一些可以動的東西了。
There's switches so you can turn things on and off.
驅(qū)動器還有開關(guān)，讓你能夠?qū)崿F(xiàn)啟動和關(guān)閉功能。
There's even a freaking laser, so you can make a cool robot into an awesome robot.
它甚至還有一個非同尋常的激光器，讓你能把一個看起來還不錯的機(jī)器人變得炫酷無比。
Now, I've built a lot of stuff out of garbage, and some of these things have even been kind of useful.
我已經(jīng)用廢棄材料造出了許多東西，而且其中一些還是很有用的。
But here's the thing, for me, garbage is just a chance to play,
不過事實上，對我來說，廢品只是提供了一個玩轉(zhuǎn)的機(jī)會，
to be creative and build things to amuse myself.
讓我富有創(chuàng)造力，打造自娛自樂的東西。
This is what I love doing, so I just made it part of my day job.
這是我的興趣所在，所以我把它融入了我的一部分日常工作。
I lead a university-based biological research lab, where we value curiosity and exploration above all else.
我?guī)ьI(lǐng)著一個大學(xué)的生物研究實驗室，我們把好奇心和探究精神擺在首位。
We aren't focused on any particular problem, and we're not trying to solve any particular disease.
我們不專注于任何特定的問題，也沒有嘗試去解決任何特定的疾病。
This is just a place where people can come and ask fascinating questions and find answers.
這只是一個人們可以來提出奇妙的問題并找到答案的地方。
And I realized a long time ago
很久以前我就意識到，
that if I challenge people to build the equipment they need out of the garbage I find,
如果我挑戰(zhàn)別人用我找到的廢品，造出他們需要的設(shè)備，
it's a great way to foster creativity.
這是一種很好的培養(yǎng)創(chuàng)造力的方式。
And what happened was that artists and scientists from around the world started coming to my lab.
后來，全世界的藝術(shù)家和科學(xué)家們開始紛紛來到我的實驗室。
And it's not just because we value unconventional ideas,
并不只是因為我們重視新奇的想法，
it's because we test and validate them with scientific rigor.
更是因為我們用科學(xué)的精確性檢測并證實那些想法。
