Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.

  • -- Thomas Nagel 托马斯·内格尔

最终,我相信,目前试图用人造计算机来理解大脑的尝试将被认为是巨大的浪费时间。人造计算机可以出色地执行一些与有意识的人相同的外部任务。

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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

书不过是废纸,除非我们把睡着时获得的智慧付诸行动。当我们对生者感到厌倦时,我们可以向死者寻求安慰,因为他们在谈话中没有丝毫的乖戾、骄傲和故意。

Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore.

看,建筑有很多地方可以隐藏,有很多借口。客户让我这么做的。“是这个城市逼我这么做的。”“哦,预算。”“我再也不相信了。

God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand?

上帝给了我们完全一样的手指、手臂、腿和脚,但在我们不同的国家,我们对它们的划分却略有不同,你明白吗?

Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and fast-food outlets legally accountable.

肉类消费对公众健康的危害不亚于烟草的使用。是时候让肉类生产商和快餐店承担法律责任了。

I believe that our society is merely a reflection of what is going on inside each and every one of us.

我相信我们的社会仅仅是我们每个人内心世界的反映。

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

世界是广阔的,我不会把我的生命浪费在可以转化为动力的摩擦上。

The last thing I would attempt to do is to buy clothes for a child I didn't know well.

我最不愿意做的事情就是给一个我不太了解的孩子买衣服。

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.

成功很简单。在正确的时间以正确的方式做正确的事。

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

想要懂得今天,就必须研究昨天。

So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others.

太多的时间被浪费在试图比别人更好。

Make voyages! Attempt them! There's nothing else.

使航行!尝试他们!没有什么别的。

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

我浪费了时间,现在时间也在浪费我。