Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.

  • -- James Thurber 詹姆斯·瑟伯

人已经走得够久了,甚至太久了,却没有足够的勇气去面对一个简单的事实:人的烦恼就是人。

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Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

不公正、贫穷、奴役、无知——这些都可以通过改革或革命来解决。但是人不仅仅是靠与罪恶作斗争来生活的。他们生活在积极的目标下,个人的和集体的,各种各样的目标,很少是可以预测的,有时是不相容的。

There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.

古语有云:人在未死之前,无法彻底了解人的一生,只有善恶之分。

The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.

程序员的问题是,你永远无法知道一个程序员在做什么,直到为时已晚。

The trouble with giving yourself a pep talk is, that deep down you know it's all bullshit.

给自己打气的麻烦在于,在内心深处你知道这都是胡扯。