I think you've got to watch out for anybody in high school who says he wants to become an economist.

  • -- Thomas J. Sargent 托马斯·萨金特

我认为你必须提防任何一个在高中说他想成为一名经济学家的人。

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If you hear an expert talking about the Internet and saying it [does] this, or it will do that, you should treat it with the same skepticism that you might treat the comments of an economist about the economy or a weatherman about the weather.

如果你听到一位专家在谈论互联网,并说它会做这个或会做那个,你应该用同样的怀疑态度对待它,就像你对待经济学家对经济的评论或天气预报员对天气的评论一样。

Every dude in your high school wasn't striving to be the best poet because then he'd get all the girls, right? But you could imagine a society in which that were the case.

你高中的每一个男生都没有努力成为最好的诗人,因为那样他就能得到所有的女孩,对吧?但你可以想象这样一个社会。

I played basketball and soccer my freshman year in high school.

我在高一的时候打篮球和足球。

For economist the real world is often a special case.

对经济学家来说,现实世界往往是一个特例。