Now the whole point about machines is they are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it to be different every time you call it up. You want it to stay the same.

  • -- Rupert Sheldrake 谢尔德雷克

机器的关键在于它们不是随机设计的。当你在电脑上调用一个文字处理程序时,你不希望每次调用时它都不一样。你希望它保持不变。

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I'm still a firm believer that we were definitely put here to use our minds, and that is what makes us different. And that that's the key. If there is anything that is going to stop mankind from being such a beastly, destructive creature, it is reason.

我仍然坚信,我们来到这里一定是为了运用我们的智慧,而这正是我们与众不同的地方。这就是关键。如果有什么能阻止人类成为如此凶残、具有破坏性的生物,那就是理性。

We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design.

我们对乐队没有总体的概念上的推力,除了努力创作能保持我们兴趣的音乐。当事物是新奇的时候,它们很可能是我们偶然发现的,或者是调查发现的,而不是设计出来的。

Abstracts are real and time is a lie, it cannot be measured when one moment can expand to hold everything.

抽象是真实的,时间是一个谎言,它无法测量当一个时刻可以膨胀到容纳一切。

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

我习惯了睡觉,也习惯了在梦中想象疯子醒来时所想象的事情。

I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.

在设计那些不需要也不持久的东西时,我会再三考虑。

I just always considered myself to be different and able to explore whatever I wanted.

我总是认为自己与众不同,能够探索我想要的任何东西。

There's a freedom to being young that is harder to come by as time goes on.

年轻有一种自由,但随着时间的推移,这种自由越来越难获得。