People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

  • -- Edmund Burke 埃德蒙伯克

人不瞻望子孙,人不瞻仰祖先。

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Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.

大多数公司并没有把全部精力放在创新上。他们必须创新,同时淘汰不计其数的小部件或处理数十亿笔交易。

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

立刻开始释放你自己,用你所拥有的方式做所有可能的事情,当你本着这种精神前进时,道路将为你打开,让你做得更多。

There's a lot of people out there who go through hard times, and they feel alone. They feel like nobody is there. But I'm in the same boat.

很多人都经历过困难时期,他们感到孤独。他们觉得没有人在那里。但是我的处境相同。

Celebrities meet a lot of people and we just can't maintain them all in our fuddled brains.

名人会遇到很多人,我们只是不能把他们都保持在我们混乱的大脑中。

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

每个人都有自己的祖先树,但在所有树的顶端可能是树栖的。

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

从第一天到今天,纯粹的贪婪是文明的驱动力。

Snobs talk as if they had begotten their own ancestors.

势利者说起话来就像他们生了自己的祖先一样。

Innovation is creativity with a job to do.

创新是有工作可做的创造性。