Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous.

  • -- Mencius 孟子

在时机尚未成熟之前说出的真理总是危险的。

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The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past.

未来太过有趣和危险,不能委托给任何可预测、可靠的机构。我们需要尽可能多的犯错。最重要的是,我们需要保持我们相互联系的思想的绝对不可预测性和完全不可能性。这样我们就可以像过去一样,保留所有的选择。

I was very careful to send Mr. Roosevelt every few days a statement of our casualties. I tried to keep before him all the time the casualty results because you get hardened to these things and you have to be very careful to keep them always in the forefront of your mind.

我非常小心地每隔几天就给罗斯福先生发一份我们的伤亡报告。我一直试图把伤亡的结果放在他面前,因为你对这些事情已经麻木了,你必须非常小心,把它们永远放在你脑海的最前面。

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

我们坐下来的时候,我已经爱上她一半了。女孩就是这样。每次他们做一些漂亮的…你爱上他们一半,然后你永远不知道你到底在哪里。

Ill-timed laughter is a dangerous evil.

不合时宜的大笑是一种危险的罪恶。