Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

  • -- Alexander Graham Bell 亚历山大·格雷厄姆·贝尔

伟大的发现和进步总是需要许多人的合作。我可能因为开辟了这条道路而受到赞扬,但当我看到后来的发展时,我觉得这是别人的功劳,而不是我自己的。

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These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.

这些是风笛。我知道风笛的发明者看到一个人腋下夹着一头愤怒的、患有哮喘的猪时,受到了启发。不幸的是,人造声音永远无法与猪发出的声音相比。

I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.

我是一个发明家。我之所以对长期趋势感兴趣,是因为一项发明必须在它完成的地方有意义,而不是在它开始的地方。

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

发现就是看到别人看到的,思考别人没有想到的。

I don't know what is behind the curtain; only that I need to find out.

我不知道幕布后面是什么;我只需要知道。

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

我对我所发现的比我所发明的更感兴趣。

Man is the inventor of stupidity.

人是愚蠢的创造者。