If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change.

  • -- Robert Alwyn Petrie Hewison 罗伯特·阿尔文·皮特里·休伊森

如果我们能提供的唯一的新东西是过去的改进版本,那么今天只能比昨天差。被过去的景象所催眠,我们可能会失去所有创造改变的能力。

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Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath.

今天对万物物理理论的关注,偏离了科学的目的——无情地质疑万物。现代物理学已经变得像斯威夫特的拉皮塔王国,荒谬地飞在地球上方的一个岛上,对地球下方的一切漠不关心。

It's in our best interest to put some of the old rules aside and create new ones and follow the consumer - what the consumer wants and where the consumer wants to go.

把一些旧的规则放在一边,创造新的规则,并遵循消费者的意愿——消费者想要什么,消费者想去哪里——是我们最大的利益所在。

It seems to me that in our lifetime we have passed from the wreck of liberal humanism to the beginning of a new recognition of dogma: isn't it rather tremendous?

在我看来,在我们的一生中,我们已经从自由人文主义的废墟中走出来,开始了对教条的新的认识:这不是很了不起吗?

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

人们总是说时间能改变一切,但实际上你必须自己去改变它们。

There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.

世界上有很多人有能力改变我们的价值观。

Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow.

今天的坏习惯比明天更容易改掉。