Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

  • -- Thomas Carlyle 托马斯·卡莱尔

教一只鹦鹉“供给和需求”这两个术语,你就有了一位经济学家。

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If you hear an expert talking about the Internet and saying it [does] this, or it will do that, you should treat it with the same skepticism that you might treat the comments of an economist about the economy or a weatherman about the weather.

如果你听到一位专家在谈论互联网,并说它会做这个或会做那个,你应该用同样的怀疑态度对待它,就像你对待经济学家对经济的评论或天气预报员对天气的评论一样。

I may be only a fish and chip shop lady, but some of these economists need to get their heads out of the textbooks and get a job in the real world. I would not even let one of them handle my grocery shopping.

我可能只是一个炸鱼薯条店的女店员,但是这些经济学家中的一些人需要跳出课本,到现实世界去找份工作。我甚至不会让他们中的一个来处理我的杂货采购。