In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.

  • -- Charles Babbage 巴贝奇

在数学上,我们早就控制不住自己,放弃了一场无望的竞赛。

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If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are full of nuance and contradiction and have interesting dialog, actors are drawn to that.

如果你写有趣的角色,你就能让有趣的人来扮演。如果你写的角色充满了细微的差别和矛盾,并且有有趣的对话,演员就会被吸引。

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.

在不远的将来的某个时期,人类的文明种族几乎肯定会灭绝,并取代世界各地的野蛮种族。

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

数学把我们带入绝对必然性的领域,在这个领域里,不仅实际的词,而且每一个可能的词都必须符合。

I guess I've always been drawn to roles that have smart characters commenting on what's happening around them.

我想我总是被那些聪明的角色所吸引,他们会对周围发生的事情做出评论。

Practically the whole human race is hypnotized because it thinks what somebody else told it to think.

实际上,整个人类都被催眠了,因为它按照别人的吩咐去思考。

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

纯数学,从它的角度来说,是逻辑思想的诗歌。