As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.

  • -- Alex Campbell 亚历克斯·坎贝尔

因此,进步仅仅意味着更大的权力、更多的利润、更高的生产率、更多的纸张繁荣,所有这些都可以转化为只与大小或规模有关的标准,而不是质量或卓越性。

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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.

这是双向的:有些悲剧的受害者来找我,他们经历了巨大的悲痛,无法和解。同样,我也无法改变那些犯下罪行的人或追随他们的傻瓜的心态。

Believing we know what makes prosperity work, ignoring the nature of the actual prosperity all around, we change the rules within which the Internet revolution lives. These changes will end the revolution.

我们相信我们知道是什么让繁荣发挥作用,而忽视了周围实际繁荣的本质,我们改变了互联网革命赖以生存的规则。这些变化将结束这场革命。

My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home.

我的父母是纯粹的禁酒主义者。他们都是非常善良的人,有着很高的道德标准——但是非常压抑。在我的家里没有拥抱和亲吻。

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

所有科学的伟大目标都是通过从最少的假设或公理中进行逻辑推理来涵盖最多的经验事实。

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

让我们不要害怕说出一个常识:没有良好的纪律,你就不可能有高标准。

Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

最大的优点在于不战而破敌之抵抗。

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

一个人的掌声是很重要的。

He who spits up in the air will get it back on his beard.

向空中吐唾沫的,必使唾沫回到他的胡须上。

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

成功是一位伟大的老师;逆境更大。

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

没有人会因为获利而赔钱。

I never lost money by turning a profit.

我从来没有因为盈利而亏本。