if you go to the computer science and artificial intelligence building at m.i.t., it will show you the definition of hack. it s actually a very positive word, but it became a very negative word. right. so the word hacker is to describe the people who are really they really like programming. they love to share information. just like cooking. you love to share recipes to your friends who love cooking as well. legally, there might be something wrong with it. but morally, do you think is there anything wrong with essentially breaking into information base? yes. i m not doing anything. i m going to go in, look around, see how things work and i ll leave without disturbing anything. would most hackers say that s okay? yes. in the service of knowledge? that s okay? okay for most the hackers in our communities. i was lucky. i got into a very big hacker community here in shanghai and met a lot of great mentors. you started in business at 21. in factory. quite an accomplis
negative word. right. so the word hacker is to describe the people who are really they really like programming. they love to share information. just like cooking. you love to share recipes to your friends who love cooking as well. legally, there might be something wrong with it. but morally, do you think is there s anything wrong with like you re essentially breaking into an information base? yes. i m not doing anything. i m going to go in, look around, see how things work and i ll leave without disturbing anything. would most hackers say that s okay? yes. it s in the service of knowledge? that s okay? okay for most the hackers in our communities. i was lucky. i got into a very big hacker community here in shanghai and met a lot of great mentors. you started in business at 21. in factory. quite an accomplishment. i didn t go to college. you didn t go to college? i didn t go to the college. why not?
in factory. quite an accomplishment. i didn t go to college. you didn t go to college? i didn t go to the college. why not? most of the professors are way behind the development speed of the communities. why? your country is so advanced in so many other ways. why in this area? the network problem here in china, we have gfw, the great firewall, and it blocked a lot of important information websites. inside china. and a lot of people, they can t get the cutting-edge technology, which we don t teach in college at all. so the human resource problem and the manpower problem is more and more getting more and more serious here in china. because everyone s going to the silicon valley? they offer better. obviously. oh, here are the these are the famous ribs? yes. maybe the number one thing that the seriously food-crazed traveler coming back from shanghai will tell you to eat other than the soup dumplings,
education you re ging. you don t want to incur debt that stops you from investing in family formation, houses, cars and children down the road. the vl of my education is priceless, but the value of my education is also not $140,000 in debt. if i do ever have kids and get private loans, they ll be directly passed to them, even if i die. it s just siphoning my dreams away. and i feel bad talking about any dreams that i have these days a because there s always this talk that generation y is so entitled and selfish just for wanting the opportunities that their parents had. a lot of the older generations that criticize the millennials grew up in a time when you could go to a sate university and pay your way through with summer jobs. these millennial children them got to college and realized oh, the money is not there to pay for me. i m not going to be able to graduate into a cushy job. and, in fact, everything i was
aren t sure about the layout of a lot of money. is my daughter going to have a job or is she going to come home after it s all done? is your daughter going to have a job and not come back home? i can t tell you that. the time to be defensive about education is not now. this is the time to be aggressive about a broadly-based, intensely personal and intensively practical form of education, whatever school you go to, and it is expensive. i know, i don t have to tell you parents here. we re definitely ensconced in this view that there s only one way to go to college, and that s the four-year, private school where your kids live in dorms with their friends and have all their meals taken care of and someone cleaning the bathroom. i m amply stressed about the college search to come. if you look directly that way, that is the new one world trade building they re building. all the parents i know, their