Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

  • -- Evan Esar 埃文·伊萨尔

统计学家的定义:一个人相信数据不会说谎,但他承认,在分析中,有些数据也站不住脚。

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Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

设计是把形式和内容放在一起的方法。设计和艺术一样,有多种定义;没有单一的定义。设计可以是艺术。设计可以是美学。设计如此简单,这就是为什么它如此复杂。

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

归根到底,个人要对自己的生活负责,对“发现自己”负责。如果他坚持把自己的责任转移给别人,他就不能发现自己存在的意义。

The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.

我们知道老人是怎样变成现在这个样子的,他比年轻人更有个性;因为只有在多事的人生过程中,人们才会分化成完全的个性。

My analysis was directed toward purely physical conditions, such as defective wiring, presence of lack of air spaces between metal flues and woodwork, etc., and the results were presented in these terms.

我的分析是针对纯粹的物理条件,如线路有缺陷,金属烟道和木制品之间缺乏空隙等,结果用这些术语表示。

We grow up being told about great figures in our society, and as you get older you have to question the stories you've been told and decide if these great figures are indeed as great as you've been told.

我们从小到大都是听着社会上伟大人物的故事长大的,随着年龄的增长,你必须质疑别人告诉你的故事,并判断这些伟大人物是否真的像别人告诉你的那样伟大。

To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of.

在实验结束后打电话给统计学家,可能仅仅是让他做一个尸检:他或许能够说出实验的死因。

If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

如果你不能忍受一点点牺牲,你不能忍受用有限的水穿越沙漠,我们就永远无法把这个国家理顺。

The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.

小说的第一个谎言是作者给混乱的生活安排了秩序:时间顺序,或者作者选择的任何顺序。

I don't believe in trickle-down economics. I don't think that people who have the most are inclined to share it, generally.

我不相信涓滴经济学。一般来说,我不认为拥有最多财富的人倾向于分享财富。

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

商学院奖励困难复杂的行为多于简单的行为,但简单的行为更有效。

Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

利益不能把国家联系在一起;它有时会把它们分开。但是同情和理解确实使他们团结起来。

Yet God is so one that He admits of distinction, and so admits of distinction that He still remains unity.

然而神是如此的一位,他承认有分别,也承认有分别,所以他仍然保持统一。

Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did.

每个人迟早都得动手术。希望他们能像我一样亲热。

Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.

我读了你写的这些备忘录,你是否有这样的印象?我甚至都举不起来。

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

绘画是一门诚实的艺术。作弊是不可能的。不是好就是坏。

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

暴君总是有些轻微的美德;他们在破坏法律之前支持法律。

Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt. Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.

尝试结束,永远不要怀疑。没有什么比搜索更困难的了。

There is always some madness in love but there is also always some reason in madness.

爱情中总是有一些疯狂,但疯狂中也总有一些原因。

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

神……他的唯一定义就是他超出了人类的想象能力。

Have you noticed that it is easier to believe in the "no" than the "yes"?

你是否注意到,相信“不”比相信“是”更容易?

If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion.

如果不能用数字来表达,那就不是科学;这是意见。

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

请求原谅往往比请求允许更容易。

All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.

好了,大家按身高的字母顺序排好队。

If you don't go to other men funerals they won't go to yours.

如果你不去参加别人的葬礼,他们也不会去参加你的。

We are all self made but only the successful will admit it.

我们都是自己创造的,但只有成功者才会承认这一点。

Well, you can't compete with a six foot five man in a wig.

嗯,你不能和一个戴着假发、身高六英尺五英寸的人竞争。

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

生活中,你要么需要灵感,要么需要绝望。

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

世界上所有的真理加起来就是一个大谎言。

He that won't be counseled can't be helped.

不听劝告的人是没有办法的。

I was always handsome under all the fat.

尽管我很胖,但我总是很帅。