How to respect tradition and to innovate at the same time? What a difficult challenge!

  • -- I. M. Pei 贝聿铭

如何在尊重传统的同时创新?多么困难的挑战啊!

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There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical.

有一个学术传统叫做“最后一课”。假设,如果你知道自己就要死了,而你还有最后一堂课,你会对你的学生说什么?对我来说,房间里有一头大象。房间里的大象,对我来说,这不是假设。

To write a poem you must have a streak of arrogance-- not in real life I hope. In real life try to be nice. It will save you a hell of a lot of trouble and give you more time to write.

要写一首诗,你必须有点傲慢——我希望不是在现实生活中。在现实生活中,尽量做个好人。它会为你省去很多麻烦,给你更多的时间来写作。

There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.

即使是现在,阿富汗也没有写小说的伟大传统。大多数文学作品是以诗歌的形式出现的。

Tis sweet at certain times to drop the sage.

在某些时候放下圣贤是甜蜜的。