Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything.

  • -- Samuel Eliot Morison 塞缪尔·艾略特·莫里森

历史方法论的课程不值得花那么多时间。我自己永远也不会给出一个,而且我已经注意到,我的许多教授这类课程的同事都避免用写作来举例说明他们的方法。

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Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect.

当然,有时出于商业原因,你会做一些更主流的事情。但即便如此,我还是试图找到一些黑暗或颠覆性的东西。

It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing.

除非你在做某件事,而有些人却宁愿你不去做,否则这件事就不值得你去做。

I've never been up with the times, always been slightly out of step.

我从来没有跟上时代的步伐,总是有点跟不上时代的步伐。

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

如果值得做,就值得做过头。