I have so much to prove to myself. I want to be better. I want to be smarter. I want to be more talented. I want to be more efficient. I want to be more creative.

Your smarts will come in handy because you will travel in a land of marvels. We humans -- plodding as we are -- will astonish ourselves. We'll invent ways to generate clean energy and a lot of it. Atom by atom， we'll assemble tiny machines that will enter cell walls and make repairs. This month comes the extraordinary but also inevitable news that we've synthesized life. In the coming years， we'll not only synthesize it， but we'll engineer it to specifications. I believe you'll even see us understand the human brain. Jules Verne， Mark Twain， Galileo， Newton -- all the curious from the ages would have wanted to be alive most of all right now. As a civilization， we will have so many gifts， just as you as individuals have so many individual gifts as you sit before me.

The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

真相是，生活既美妙又可怕，既迷人又恐怖，既甜蜜又苦涩，这就是一切。

我们最爱的故事不仅仅是娱乐我们；它们塑造了我们是谁。