A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.

  • -- Charles Babbage 巴贝奇

因此,对促进一项研究和对最完全占用时间的其他工作的职责的促进存在着一种强大的吸引力,而这比任何科学知识对其他工作的促进作用都要小。

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A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that action, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment to friends; and that the most liberal professions of good-will are very far from being the surest marks of it

对世界稍作了解就会使每个人相信,衡量一个人对朋友的感情的真正标准是行动,而不是语言;而且,最慷慨的善意表白远非最可靠的标志

The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.

受教育的问题在于它需要很长时间;它占用了你生活中较好的部分,当你完成工作后,你知道,如果你进入银行业,你会受益更多。

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

就像我们长大后不再穿裤子一样,我们也不再穿熟人、图书馆、原则等等,有时裤子还没穿坏,有时——这是最糟糕的——还没有新裤子。

'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'

海象说:“现在是谈论许多事情的时候了:谈论鞋子、船——还有封蜡——谈论卷心菜和国王。”

There were times when I wondered if I was doing the right thing, studying when I could have been going to auditions.

有些时候,我在想我做的是不是对的,当我本可以去试镜的时候,我却在学习。

Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.

软件业务的大部分工作都是维护已经存在的代码。

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

我们必须在我们所能得到的东西中找到我们的责任,而不是在可能发生的事情中。

Real-life duties eat valuable writing time.

现实生活中的工作占用了宝贵的写作时间。