The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now.

  • -- Edward Tufte 爱德华·塔夫特

长期以来,试图创造出永恒的知识的想法一直指导着我的工作。

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Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.

工作是一天的秩序,就像它曾经是,我们的第一次开始和我们最好的努力。你还记得吗?这就是它的乐趣所在。它把被遗忘的东西带回来;一个人的能量储备,似乎耗尽了,又恢复了活力。

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.

诗歌没有捷径可走,这是一件令人高兴的事。现在世人应该知道,除非飞到帕纳索斯,否则是到不了帕纳索斯的。

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

政治是庸人的消遣,当他们在政治上取得成功时,在更多庸人的眼里就变得重要了。

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

官员的尊严往往与任职国家的重要性成反比。