I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.

  • -- Alan Alda 艾伦·阿尔达

我发现我问的问题不够好,因为我以为我知道一些事情。我会用一个形式糟糕的问题把他们逼到墙角,而他们不知道如何摆脱。现在,我让他们一步一步地把我带过去,我听着。

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I've done a lot of interviews of the last few years, and I've actually started a list of questions that it would be fun to ask an author, but no respectable interviewer would ever ask. Since I'm not respectable, I'm going to start doing interviews with some authors I know, just for fun.

在过去的几年里,我做过很多采访,实际上,我已经开始了一系列的问题,问一个作家会很有趣,但没有一个可敬的采访者会问这些问题。由于我不受人尊敬,我打算开始采访一些我认识的作家,只是为了好玩。

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.

只有理性才能使我们相信这三个基本真理,而不承认这三个真理,就不可能有真正的自由:我们相信的不一定是真理;我们喜欢的不一定是好的;所有的问题都是开放的。

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.

这是我的黄金法则:对别人要公平,但要坚持下去,直到他们对你公平。

I think that people always just assumed that I was a liberal because I came from Southeast Seattle.

我想人们总是认为我是自由主义者,因为我来自西雅图东南部。

As witnesses that the things were not done in a corner.

作见证,证明这事不是在背地里作的。