I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction.

  • -- John Steinbeck 约翰·斯坦贝克

我把毁灭国家的人命名为:安逸、富足和安全——从这些东西中滋生出一种无聊而懒散的玩世不恭,在这种玩世不恭中,对现实世界的反叛,以及对自我的反叛,都淹没在无精打采的自我满足之中。

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If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.

如果你认为技术可以解决你的安全问题,那么你就不了解这些问题,你也不了解技术。

I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

我认为,偶尔的一点反叛是一件好事,在政治世界里,就像在物质世界里,风暴一样必不可少。

Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe.

安全是试图让宇宙静止,让我们感到安全。

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

每个革命者最终不是成为压迫者就是成为异教徒。