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Code is the next universal language.
編碼是下一個世界性的語言。
In the seventies, it was punk music that drove the whole generation.
七十年代，影響了一代人的，是朋克音樂。
In the eighties, it was probably money.
八十年代，也許是金錢吧。
But for my generation of people, software is the interface to our imagination and our world.
而對我這代人來說，軟件就是想象和世界的接口。
And that means that we need a radically, radically more diverse set of people to build those products,
這意味著我們需要更多更多各式各樣的人來建造這些產品，
to not see computers as mechanical and lonely and boring and magic,
這些人不會把電腦視作神奇卻呆板、孤獨又無趣的東西，
to see them as things that they can tinker and turn around and twist, and so forth.
而是把電腦看作是可以擺弄的，可以改進的等等。
My personal journey into the world of programming and technology started at the tender age of 14.
我開始編程，初涉科技世界，是在稚嫩的十四歲。
I had this mad teenage crush on an older man,
那時，我瘋狂迷戀著一位年長男士，
and the older man in question just happened to be the then Vice President of the United States, Mr. Al Gore.
這位男士正是時任美國副總統(tǒng)的阿爾·戈爾先生。
And I did what every single teenage girl would want to do.
而我做了每個青春期女生都想做的事。
I wanted to somehow express all of this love, so I built him a website, it's over here.
我想要表達自己對他的愛，因此，我為他建立了一個網站。就是這個。
And in 2001, there was no Tumblr, there was no Facebook, there was no Pinterest.
那是2001年，彼時沒有Tumblr，沒有Facebook，也沒有Pinterest。
So I needed to learn to code in order to express all of this longing and loving.
因此我需要學習編程來表達我所有的憧憬和愛慕。
And that is how programming started for me. It started as a means of self-expression.
這就是我如何開始編程的故事。最初它于我而言，是一種表達自我的方式。
Just like when I was smaller, I would use crayons and legos.
就像我小的時候，會用蠟筆和樂高積木來表達。
And when I was older, I would use guitar lessons and theater plays.
長大些后，會用吉他課和戲劇表演，來表達自己。
But then, there were other things to get excited about,
但那時，還有其它很多讓人興奮的東西，
like poetry and knitting socks and conjugating French irregular verbs
比如詩歌和織襪子，總結法語動詞變位，
and coming up with make-believe worlds and Bertrand Russell and his philosophy.
構建虛幻世界，還有伯特蘭·羅素以及他的哲學。
And I started to be one of those people who felt that computers are boring and technical and lonely.
然后，我也開始和很多人一樣，認為計算機既無趣，又專業(yè)還孤單。
