Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.

  • -- Bill Gates 比尔·盖茨

计算机软件设计的世界从什么时候开始关注人们想要什么?这是一个关于进化的简单问题。这一天很快就会到来,每个人的膝盖都会跪倒在一个硅制的拳头下,你们都将祈求你们的二元神的怜悯。

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Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.

设计永远不可能是对任何事情的最终解释。这只能是一个近似的解释。飞机或汽车是由设计师来解释的,但那是因为设计师本身,即工程师,是由自然选择来解释的。

The last day of shooting, there were tears. It was this family that's grown together over the years. Many of us have worked on it since the beginning, so there's a sadness when we all go our separate ways.

拍摄的最后一天,有眼泪。这是一个共同成长多年的家庭。我们很多人从一开始就在做这件事,所以当我们各走各的路时,会有一种悲伤。

I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.

令我印象深刻的是,生物系统是基于分子机器的,我们正在学习设计和建造这类东西。

I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.

我认为立体主义还没有完全发展起来。它被视为一种风格,被归类,仅此而已。

Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.

任何优秀的软件工程师都会告诉你编译器和解释器是可以互换的。

Things are done quickly enough if done well. If just quickly done they can be quickly undone.

如果做得好,事情做得足够快。只要迅速地做,它们就能很快被撤销。

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

在软件系统中,早起的鸟儿有虫吃。

I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.

我从九岁就开始看小报了。我喜欢好故事。

I've been out all over the world tranquilizing animals.

我到过世界各地给动物注射镇静剂。

Good people climb quickly - just like in a company.

好人爬得快——就像在公司里一样。