One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.

  • -- Eli Whitney 伊莱·惠特尼

我的主要目标之一是形成工具,这样工具本身就能塑造作品,并使每一个部分都有其合理的比例。

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For a crowd to be smart, the people in it need to be not only diverse in their perspectives but also, relatively speaking, independent of each other. In other words, you need people to be thinking for themselves, rather than following the lead of those around them.

要想让一群人变得聪明,其中的人不仅需要在观点上多样化,而且相对而言,还需要彼此独立。换句话说,你需要人们为自己考虑,而不是跟随周围人的领导。

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

与墨守成规者相比,还有一种程度更低的怯懦:时髦的非墨守成规者。

I had no name for that particular hue of orange, other than unfortunate.

我对那种特别的橙色没有别的名字,除了“不幸”。

Many bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.

许多人把衣服带到教堂而不是自己。