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。

A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens.

一位瑞典物理学家除非出国,否则不能与五十个人讨论他的工作。一位瑞典经济学家可以从他成千上万的同胞那里得到用本国语言表述的意见和指示。