【马斯克】很多人看完这段采访，沉默了很久…
字幕摘录
| 时间 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 0:00 | When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor. | 当事情足够重要时,即使机会对你不利,你也要这样做。 |
| 0:03 | And there need to be reasons to get up in the morning. | 并且需要有 理由起来在早晨。 |
| 0:06 | You know, life can't just be about solving problems. | 生活不能只是解决问题 |
| 0:09 | Otherwise, what's the point? | 否则,有什么意义? |
| 0:11 | There's got to be things that people find inspiring and make life worth living. | 一定有一些东西,人们会发现鼓舞人心,让生命变得值得生活. |
| 0:16 | I think when I was, I don't know, five or six or something, I thought I was insane. | 我觉得当我是,我不知道, 五,六什么的, 我想我疯了。 |
| 0:20 | Because it was clear that other people did not, their mind wasn't exploding with ideas. | 因为显然其他人没有, 他们的头脑并没有被思想所爆炸。 |
| 0:24 | It was just strange. | 这太奇怪了 |
| 0:26 | It's like a never-ending explosion all the time. | 这就像永远的爆炸 |
| 0:31 | You know, there are American heroes who don't like this idea. | 有些美国英雄不喜欢这个主意 |
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| 1 | When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor. | 当事情足够重要时,即使机会对你不利,你也要这样做。 |
| 2 | And there need to be reasons to get up in the morning. | 并且需要有 理由起来在早晨。 |
| 3 | You know, life can't just be about solving problems. | 生活不能只是解决问题 |
| 4 | Otherwise, what's the point? | 否则,有什么意义? |
| 5 | There's got to be things that people find inspiring and make life worth living. | 一定有一些东西,人们会发现鼓舞人心,让生命变得值得生活. |
| 6 | I think when I was, I don't know, five or six or something, I thought I was insane. | 我觉得当我是,我不知道, 五,六什么的, 我想我疯了。 |
| 7 | Because it was clear that other people did not, their mind wasn't exploding with ideas. | 因为显然其他人没有, 他们的头脑并没有被思想所爆炸。 |
| 8 | It was just strange. | 这太奇怪了 |
| 9 | It's like a never-ending explosion all the time. | 这就像永远的爆炸 |
| 10 | You know, there are American heroes who don't like this idea. | 有些美国英雄不喜欢这个主意 |
| 11 | Neil Armstrong, Gene Cernan have both testified | 尼尔·阿姆斯特朗 吉恩·塞南都作证了 |
| 12 | against commercial spaceflight and the way that you're developing it. | 反对商业太空飞行 以及你开发它的方式。 |
| 13 | And I wonder what you think of that. | 我想知道你对此的看法。 |
| 14 | I was very sad to see that because those guys are, yeah, | 我很难过看到那些家伙,是的, |
| 15 | you know, those guys are heroes of mine. | 他们是我的英雄 |
| 16 | So it's really tough. | 所以这真的很难。 |
| 17 | I wish they would come and visit and see the hardware that we're doing here. | 我希望他们能来看我们这里的硬件 |
| 18 | And I think that would change their mind. | 我认为这会改变他们的想法。 |
| 19 | They inspired you to do this, didn't they? | 他们激励你这样做,不是吗? |
| 20 | Yes. | 对 |
| 21 | And to see them casting stones in your direction? | 看到他们朝你的方向扔石头吗? |
| 22 | It's difficult. | 难曰. |
| 23 | What are you trying to prove to them? | 你想向他们证明什么? |
| 24 | What I'm trying to do is to make a significant difference | 我想做的是 做一个显著的改变 |
| 25 | in spaceflight and help make spaceflight accessible to almost anyone. | 在空间飞行中帮助使几乎任何人都能利用空间飞行。 |
| 26 | There were some tough times in 2008, end of 2008. | 2008年曾有过一些艰难时期,2008年底. |
| 27 | How did you get through that period of crisis? | 你怎么渡过那段危机时期的? |
| 28 | Yeah. | 对 |
| 29 | Can we just break for a second? | 我们能休息一下吗? |
| 30 | Sure, sure, yeah, of course. | 当然,当然,当然。 |
| 31 | One of the most difficult choices I have ever faced in life was in 2008. | 我一生中面临的最困难的选择之一是2008年。 |
| 32 | I think I had maybe $30 million left or $30 or $40 million left in 2008. | 我想我还有3000万 或者3000万或者4000万 |
| 33 | I had two choices. | 我有两个选择 |
| 34 | I could put it all into one company and then the other company would definitely die | 我可以把这些都放到一个公司 然后另一个公司绝对会死 |
| 35 | or split it between the two companies. | 或分给两家公司。 |
| 36 | But if I split it between two companies, then both might die. | 但如果我分给两家公司,那两家公司都可能会死 |
| 37 | And when you put your blood, sweat, and tears into creating something | 当你把血液、汗水和眼泪 投入创造 |
| 38 | or building something, it's like a child. | 或建造什么, 它就像一个孩子。 |
| 39 | It's like, which one am I going to let one starve to death? | 我该让哪个饿死? |
| 40 | I couldn't bring myself to do it. | 我无法亲自动手 |
| 41 | So I split the money between the two. | 所以我把钱分了 |
| 42 | Fortunately, thank goodness, they both came through. | 幸好他们都来了 |
| 43 | I actually think I feel fear quite strongly. | 我其实觉得很恐惧 |
| 44 | But there are times when something is important enough, | 但有时有些事情很重要 |
| 45 | you believe in it enough, you do it in spite of fear. | 你足够相信它,你这样做 不顾恐惧。 |
| 46 | If you just accept the probabilities, then that diminishes fear. | 如果你只是接受概率, 那这就会减少恐惧。 |
| 47 | When starting SpaceX, I thought the odds of success were less than 10%. | 在开始SpaceX时,我以为成功的概率不到10%. |
| 48 | And I just accepted that actually probably I would just lose everything. | 我刚刚接受了,实际上 我可能只是失去了一切。 |
| 49 | But that maybe we'd make some progress if we could just move the ball forward. | 但是,如果我们能把球向前推进,也许我们会有所进展。 |
| 50 | Even if we died, maybe some other company could pick up the baton | 就算我们死了 也许还有别的公司可以拿起警棍 |
| 51 | and keep moving it forward so that we still do some good. | 继续前进,让我们继续做一些好事。 |
| 52 | What was your biggest failure? | 你最大的失败是什么? |
| 53 | And how did it change you? | 如何改变你? |
| 54 | For SpaceX, the first three launches failed. | 对于SpaceX,前三次发射失败. |
| 55 | We're just barely able to scrape together enough parts and money to do the fourth launch. | 我们几乎无法把零件和钱 拼凑在一起 进行第四次发射 |
| 56 | If that fourth launch had failed, we would have been dead. | 如果第四次发射失败了 我们早就死了 |
| 57 | So multiple failures along the way. | 因此,在沿途多次失败。 |
| 58 | I tried very hard to get the right expertise in for SpaceX. | 我非常努力地为SpaceX获得正确的专业知识. |
| 59 | I tried hard to find a great chief engineer for the rocket. | 我努力寻找火箭的优秀总工程师 |
| 60 | But the good chief engineers wouldn't join. | 但优秀的首席工程师不会加入. |
| 61 | And the bad ones, well, there was no point in hiring them. | 而坏的,嗯,没有意义雇用他们。 |
| 62 | So I ended up being chief engineer of the rocket. | 结果我成了火箭的总工程师 |
| 63 | So if I could have found somebody better, | 如果我能找到更好的人的话 |
| 64 | then we would have maybe had less than three failures. | 那么我们可能只有不到三次失败 |
| 65 | When you had that third failure in a row, did you think, I need to pack this in? | 当你连续第三次失败的时候 你觉得我需要把这个装进去吗? |
| 66 | Never. | 从来没有。 |
| 67 | Why not? | 为什么不呢? |
| 68 | I don't ever give up. | 我从不放弃 |
| 69 | I mean, I'd have to be dead or completely incapacitated. | 我的意思是,我必须死了 或完全丧失能力。 |
| 70 | But flight four was flawless. | 但四号班机没有缺陷 |
| 71 | In Musk's world, it lit the darkness. | 在穆斯克的世界,它点燃了黑暗. |
| 72 | All those things improve the odds of success. | 所有这些事情都提高了成功的可能性。 |
| 73 | If other people are putting in 40-hour work weeks, | 如果其他人把40小时的工作周, |
| 74 | and you're putting in 100-hour work weeks, | 并且你把100小时的工作周, |
| 75 | then even if you're doing the same thing, | 就算你做同样的事情, |
| 76 | you know that you will achieve in four months what it takes them a year to achieve. | 你知道你将在四个月内 实现他们需要一年的时间 |
| 77 | When my brother and I were starting our first company, | 我和哥哥开公司的时候 |
| 78 | instead of getting an apartment, | 而不是找个公寓 |
| 79 | we just rented a small office, and we slept on the couch. | 我们刚租了一间小办公室 然后睡在沙发上 |
| 80 | And we showered at the YMCA. | 我们在基督教青年会洗澡 |
| 81 | We're so hot up, we had just one computer. | 我们这么热,我们只有一台电脑。 |
| 82 | So the website was up during the day, and I was coding at night. | 于是网站白天就起来,晚上我在编码. |
| 83 | Seven days a week, all the time. | 一周七日,无时不至. |
| 84 | I sort of briefly had a girlfriend in that period. | 那时候我有个女朋友 |
| 85 | And in order to be with me, she had to sleep in the office. | 为了和我在一起 她不得不睡在办公室里 |
| 86 | So work hard like every waking hour, particularly if you're starting a company. | 所以努力工作 就像每个醒悟的小时, 特别是如果你成立公司。 |
| 87 | As you get older, your obligations increase. | 随着年龄的增长,你的义务增加。 |
| 88 | And once you have a family, you start taking risks, | 一旦你有一个家庭, 你开始冒险, |
| 89 | not just for yourself, but for your family as well. | 不仅是为了你自己 也是为了你的家人 |
| 90 | It gets much harder to do things that might not work out. | 做一些可能不会成功的事会更困难 |
| 91 | So now is the time to do that before you have those obligations. | 因此,现在是履行这些义务之前这样做的时候了。 |
| 92 | I would encourage you to take risks now. | 我鼓励你们冒险 |
| 93 | Do something bold. | 做点大胆的事 |
| 94 | You won't regret it. | 你不会后悔的 |
| 95 | I think really an obsessive nature with respect to the quality of the product is very important. | 我认为,对产品质量的迷恋性非常重要。 |
| 96 | Really liking what you do. | 真的很喜欢你做的事 |
| 97 | Whatever area that you get into, even if you're the best of the best, | 无论你进入什么领域, 即使你是最好的, |
| 98 | there's always a chance of failure. | 总是有失败的机会 |
| 99 | So I think it's important that you really like whatever you're doing. | 所以,我认为这很重要,你 真的喜欢你在做什么。 |
| 100 | If you don't like it, life is too short. | 如果你不喜欢, 生活太短。 |
| 101 | If you like what you're doing, you think about it even when you're not working. | 如果你喜欢自己做的事情,即使你不工作,你也会考虑一下. |
| 102 | It's something that your mind is drawn to. | 这是你所想的 |
| 103 | And if you don't like it, you just really can't make it work, I think. | 如果你不喜欢, 你只是不能让它工作,我想。 |
| 104 | At Tesla, we've never spent any money on advertising. | 在特斯拉,我们从未花任何钱做广告. |
| 105 | We put all of the money into R&D and manufacturing and design | 我们把所有的钱都投入研发 制造和设计 |
| 106 | to try to make the car as good as possible. | 让车尽可能好 |
| 107 | That's the way to go. | 即是道场. |
| 108 | So for any given company, just keep thinking about, | 所以,对于任何给定的公司, 只要继续思考, |
| 109 | are these efforts that people are expending, | 人们所花费的这些努力, |
| 110 | are they resulting in a better product or service? | 它们是否带来了更好的产品或服务? |
| 111 | And if they're not, stop those efforts. | 如果他们没有,停止那些努力。 |
| 112 | Really focus on making a product that your customers love. | 真正专注于做一个产品 你的顾客喜欢。 |
| 113 | It's so rare that you can buy a product and you love the product when you bought it. | 它是如此罕见,你可以购买一个产品,并且你爱的产品 当你买它的时候。 |
| 114 | There are very few things that fit into that category. | 属于这一类的事情很少。 |
| 115 | If you can come up with something like that, your business will be successful for sure. | 如果你能想出这样的东西, 你的生意一定会成功的. |
| 116 | So what is life for you? | 那么,什么是你的生活吗? |
| 117 | I think particularly when you see the advancement of something like video games, | 我特别想 当你看到电子游戏的进步 |
| 118 | then eventually those games will be indistinguishable from reality. | 最终,这些游戏将无法与现实区分开来。 |
| 119 | That we're so realistic, you will not be able to tell the difference between | 我们是如此现实, 你将无法分辨 |
| 120 | that game and the reality as we know it. | 那游戏和我们所知的现实 |
| 121 | Well, how do we know that that didn't happen in the past | 那么,我们怎么知道 过去没有发生 |
| 122 | and that we're not in one of those games ourselves? | 而我们自己却不在游戏之列? |
| 123 | Mark my words, AI is far more dangerous than nukes. | 记住我的话 AI比核武器危险得多 |
| 124 | Far. | 远曰. |
| 125 | So why do we have no regulatory oversight? | 为什么我们没有监管监督? |
| 126 | This is insane. | 这太疯狂了 |
| 127 | Where are the aliens? | 外星人们呢? |
| 128 | Maybe they're among us. | 也许他们在我们中间 |
| 129 | I don't know. | 师曰. |
| 130 | Some people think I'm an alien. | 有些人认为我是外星人 |
| 131 | Once you said you want to die on Mars, why? | 你曾经说过你想死在火星上 为什么? |
| 132 | To be clear, I don't want to die on Mars. | 说清楚 我不想死在火星上 |
| 133 | I mean, we're all going to die someday. | 我是说,我们总有一天会死的 |
| 134 | And if you're going to pick some place to die, then why not Mars? | 如果你要选个地方去死 为什么不去火星? |
| 135 | If we're born on Earth, why not die on Mars? | 如果我们出生在地球上 为什么不死在火星上? |
| 136 | Given the choice of dying on Earth or dying on Mars, | 考虑到在地球上或火星上死亡的选择, |
| 137 | I'd say, yeah, sure, I'll die on Mars. | 我会说,是的,当然,我会死在火星上。 |
| 138 | But it's not some kind of Mars death wish. | 但这不是火星死亡的愿望 |
| 139 | And if I do die on Mars, I just don't want it to be on impact. | 如果我真的死在火星上, 我只是不希望它受到撞击。 |
| 140 | Why is Mars important? | 为什么火星很重要? |
| 141 | Why does Mars matter? | 为什么火星很重要? |
| 142 | Sure. | 当然 |
| 143 | Well, I think it's really a fundamental decision we need to make as a civilization. | 嗯,我认为这真的是 一个根本的决定,我们需要作为一个文明。 |
| 144 | You know, what kind of future do we want? | 我们想要什么样的未来? |
| 145 | Do we want a future where we are forever confined to one planet | 我们想要一个我们永远局限在一个星球上的未来吗? |
| 146 | until some eventual extinction event, however far in the future that might occur? | 直至某个最终的灭绝事件, 不论未来会发生什么? |
| 147 | Or do we want to become a multi-planet species | 或者我们想成为一个多行星物种 |
| 148 | and then ultimately be out there among the stars | 然后在星宿中, |
| 149 | and be among many planets, many star systems? | 并且成为许多星球和恒星系的一部分? |
| 150 | And I think the latter is a far more exciting and inspiring future than the former. | 我认为后者是一个比前者更令人兴奋和鼓舞的未来。 |
| 151 | And Mars is the next natural step. | 而火星是下一个自然步骤. |
| 152 | In fact, it's the only planet we really have a shot at establishing a self-sustaining city on. | 事实上,这是我们唯一能够 建立自我维持的城市的星球。 |
| 153 | But personally, I find what gets me more excited is | 但从个人来看,我发现让我更兴奋的是 |
| 154 | the fact that this would be an incredible adventure. | 这会是一个不可思议的冒险 |
| 155 | I mean, it'd be like the greatest adventure ever. | 我的意思是,这将是有史以来最伟大的冒险。 |
| 156 | And it would be exciting and inspiring. | 这将是令人兴奋和鼓舞的。 |
| 157 | And there need to be things that excite and inspire people. | 并需要一些刺激和激励人们的东西。 |
| 158 | You'd have to be, you know, reasons why you get up in the morning. | 你必须,你知道,你为什么早上起床。 |
| 159 | It can't just be solving problems. | 它不能只是解决问题。 |
| 160 | It's got to be, you know, something great's going to happen in the future. | 将来一定有大事要发生 |
| 161 | When I was young, I didn't really know what I was going to do when I got older. | 年轻时,我还不知道长大后该怎么办. |
| 162 | People kept asking me. | 人们一直问我。 |
| 163 | And eventually, I thought the idea of inventing things would be really cool. | 最后,我认为发明东西的想法会很酷。 |
| 164 | 我以为是因为我读了Arthur C. Clarke的一段话 | |
| 165 | which said that sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. | 说足够先进的技术与魔法是分不开的 |
| 166 | And that's really true. | 这是真的。 |
| 167 | If you go back, say, 300 years, | 如果你回去,说,300年, |
| 168 | the things that we take for granted today would be, | 我们今天认为理所当然的事情是, |
| 169 | you'd be burned at the stake for, | 你会被烧在木桩上, |
| 170 | you know, being able to fly. | 能够飞翔 |
| 171 | That's crazy. | 这太疯狂了 |
| 172 | Being able to see over long distances, | 能够长途跋涉 |
| 173 | being able to communicate, | 能够沟通, |
| 174 | and having access to all the world's information | 获取世界所有信息 |
| 175 | instantly from almost anywhere on the earth. | 立即从地球上的任何地方赶来 |
| 176 | This is stuff that really would be magic. | 这是真正会是魔法的东西。 |
| 177 | It would be considered magic in times past. | 它会被认为是魔法在过去。 |
| 178 | In fact, I think it actually goes beyond that, | 事实上,我认为它实际上不止于此, |
| 179 | because there are many things that we take for granted today | 因为我们今天认为有许多事情是理所当然的 |
| 180 | that weren't even imagined in times past. | 这在过去甚至没有想象。 |
| 181 | They weren't even in the realm of magic. | 他们甚至没有在魔法领域。 |
| 182 | So it actually goes beyond that. | 因此,它实际上不止于此。 |
| 183 | So I thought, well, if I can do some of those things, | 所以我想 如果我能做一些这些事 |
| 184 | basically, if I can advance technology, | 基本上,如果我能推进技术, |
| 185 | that's like magic, and that would be really cool. | 这就像魔术, 这将是真的很酷。 |
| 186 | We wanted you to get excited about the possibility of | 我们想让你对可能发生 |
| 187 | something new happening in space, | 太空中新出现的事情 |
| 188 | of the space frontier getting pushed forward. | 空间前沿被推进。 |
| 189 | The goal of this was to inspire you | 这是为了激励你 |
| 190 | and make you believe again, | 并且使你们再次信道, |
| 191 | just as people believed in the Apollo era, | 就像人们相信的阿波罗时代, |
| 192 | that anything's possible. | 任何事都是可能的 可能的话 |
| 193 | Don't let anything hold you back. | 别让任何东西阻碍你 |
| 194 | Imagination is the limit. | 想象是极限。 |
| 195 | Go out there and create some magic. | 出去创造一些魔法。 |
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