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Well, it's neither. It's not magic and it's not complicated.
嗯，其實都不是。它并不神奇也并不復雜。
It all just happened really, really, really fast.
只是這一切發生得十分，非常，特別快。
Computer scientists built these amazing, beautiful machines,
計算機專家制造了這些美好又奇妙的機器，
but they made them very, very foreign to us, and also the language we speak to the computers
卻又讓我們對它們十分陌生，電腦對我們溝通的語言也同樣如此，
so that we don't know how to speak to the computers anymore without our fancy user interfaces.
因此，離開了精美的用戶界面，我們便不知道如何與電腦交流。
And that's why no one recognized that when I was conjugating French irregular verbs,
這也是為什么，沒人發現當我研究法語動詞變位時，
I was actually practicing my pattern recognition skills.
實際上，我鍛煉的是自己的模式識別技能。
And when I was excited about knitting,
當我十分開心地織襪子時，
I actually was following a sequence of symbolic commands that included loops inside of them.
我實際上正是遵循一串符號指令，包含了眾多循環命令。
And that Bertrand Russell's lifelong quest to find an exact language between English and mathematics found its home inside of a computer.
伯特蘭·羅素終其一生，追求在英語與數學中找到一種準確的語言，這一追求最終在電腦中找到歸宿。
I was a programmer, but no one knew it.
我那時就已然是個程序師，但沒人知道。
The kids of today, they tap, swipe and pinch their way through the world.
如今的孩子們終日把玩電腦。
But unless we give them tools to build with computers, we are raising only consumers instead of creators.
但除非我們給他們工具，讓他們能夠利用電腦構建世界，我們培養的就只是消費者，而不是創造者。
This whole quest led me to this little girl. Her name is Ruby, she is six years old.
這一追求過程讓我想到這個小女孩，她叫Ruby，六歲。
She is completely fearless, imaginative and a little bit bossy.
她無所畏懼，富有想象力，又有那么點強勢。
And every time I would run into a problem in trying to teach myself programming like,
每當我處理問題時，每當我學習編程，
"What is object-oriented design or what is garbage collection?",
學習諸如何為面對對象設計？何為碎片帳集？
I would try to imagine how a six-year-old little girl would explain the problem.
我都會想象一個六歲的女孩會如何解釋這些問題。
