What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

  • -- Raymond Aron 雷蒙·阿隆

被认为是乐观的,往往是一个智力上的错误。

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You can create impression on yourself by being yourself by being right, he realizes, but for creating a good impression on others there’s nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong.

他意识到,你可以通过做正确的自己来给自己留下印象,但要给别人留下好印象,没有什么比完全错误和灾难性错误更糟糕的了。

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

一个人永远不应该羞于承认自己犯了错误,这只是在说,换句话说,他今天比昨天更聪明。

I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.

我并没有深入地分析我为什么要写某个脚本。

It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters.

这不是世界上最聪明的工作,但我必须知道这些字母。

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

太多的人高估了他们不是什么,而低估了他们是什么。

Ideals do exist, the rest is just temporary interruption.

理想是存在的,其余的只是暂时的中断。