May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.

  • -- Ralph Thomas Walker 拉尔夫·托马斯·沃克

最后,我想说,我对伟大没有幻想;恰恰相反,我非常谦虚地认识到,在我四十年的生活中,我的生活是一本公开的书,服务于我的建筑师同行和公共利益。

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And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

他们写了无数的书;太骄傲、太分散、不能缄默。各人追求自己的高升、躲避自己的空虚。

I don't immerse myself in the Internet chatter because it opens you up to a whole source of danger.

我不会让自己沉浸在网络聊天中,因为它会把你暴露在一个危险的源头。

Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

理想的情况是,一本书没有顺序,读者必须找到自己的顺序。

Your eyes are open, but your mind is closed.

你的眼睛是睁开的,但你的思想是封闭的。