Never be so brief as to become obscure.

  • -- Hosea Ballou 马士

永远不要过于简短以至于变得晦涩难懂。

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It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

当像塔西佗一样,一个人有话要说时,简短地说几句话并不是什么伟大的艺术;然而,当一个人无话可说,却照样写了一整本书,把真相变成了一个说谎者——我称之为一种成就。

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

伟大的思想与他们所生活的短暂时间有关,正如伟大的建筑与他们所站立的小广场有关:你无法看到它们的全部大小,因为你站得离它们太近了。

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.

没有什么比梦想更真实。你周围的世界可以改变,但你的梦想不会。责任不需要抹去它。责任不需要掩盖它。因为梦想就在你心中,没有人能把它带走。

I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way.

我非常专注地工作,脑子里有数百个模糊的工程或编程的东西。在这方面我真的很特别。

I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.

我一度被误认为是床上功夫不错的人,这非常非常棒。

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

简洁是雄辩的一大魅力。