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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What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

我说不出这种力量是什么;我所知道的是,它的存在,只有当一个人处于一种他确切知道他想要什么,并下定决心不放弃直到他找到它的精神状态时,它才会成为可能。

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。

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

一个有意挥霍财富的人的一生往往成为一种商业投机;他的朋友、他的乐趣、赞助人和熟人都是他的资本。

Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people.

早睡早起对任何想结识我们最有影响力的人物的人来说都不是一个好习惯。

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。

To fear God, is one of the first and greatest Duties of his rational Creatures.

敬畏上帝,是他的理性造物的首要和最大的职责之一。

Dobie was so well written and so ahead of its time.

多比的作品写得很好,超前于时代。

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

我浪费了时间,现在时间也在浪费我。