All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

  • -- Thomas John Watson, Sr. Thomas John Watson,高级

只要人们愿意思考,世界上所有的问题都可以很容易地解决。问题是,人们常常为了不思考而使用各种各样的方法,因为思考是一项如此艰难的工作。

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Many people - and I think I am one of them - are more productive when they've had a little to drink. I find if I drink two or three brandies, I'm far better able to write.

很多人——我想我也是其中之一——在喝了一点酒后效率更高。我发现如果我喝两到三杯白兰地,我的写作能力会好得多。

In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances.

为了弄清楚如何让原子计算,你必须学习如何说原子的语言,并理解它们在正常情况下是如何处理信息的。

A lot of the problems teenagers go through, it's better for them to go through them on their own. If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.

青少年经历的很多问题,最好是他们自己经历。如果你总是拄着拐杖,你什么也学不到。

To me, the mind and body are one. I'm very transparent, in a way, and people can very easily make out what mood I'm in.

对我来说,思想和身体是一体的。在某种程度上,我很透明,人们很容易就能看出我的心情。

There are some problems remaining but what we have to be wary of is creating further problems ourselves.

仍然存在一些问题,但我们必须警惕的是,我们自己会制造更多的问题。

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

我发现我最大的乐趣,因此我的回报,在工作之前的世界所谓的成功。

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

如果没有雄心壮志的困扰,大多数人都能在小事上取得成功。

Instead of playing with army men or whatever, I played golf, like for hours every day.

我没有和军人或其他什么人一起玩,而是每天打几个小时的高尔夫球。

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

粗糙的分类和错误的概括是有组织生活的祸根。

My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.

我的天啊,这些人不知道如何去爱——这就是为什么他们如此轻易地去爱。

When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

当礼仪被压抑时,自由的人唯一的尊严就是畅所欲言。

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

我认为我们应该只读那些伤害我们的书。

I believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more.

我相信如果我们多敞开心扉,就会省去很多麻烦。

I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.

我在教堂学到的东西比我在世上学到的还要多。