Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

  • -- Robert Byrne 罗伯特·伯恩

把事情做好常常是浪费时间。

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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.

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。

You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.

你可以反复阅读一些东西,以确保你已经掌握了所有的知识,或者你可以明确自己的目标,使用一些技巧来确保你已经达到了目标,得到了你需要的东西。

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

一个受过教育的人是这样的人:他知道,事实往往是,信息至多是不完整的,而且往往是错误的、误导人的、虚构的、虚假的——完全是错误的。

Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him.

导演和制片人都很害怕杜蒙的演员,但同时又很欣赏他。

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

有多少次,愤怒的人愤怒地否认自己内心的想法。

Getting lost is not a waste of time.

迷路不是浪费时间。