My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.

  • -- Sarah Zettel 莎拉·泽特尔

我对这个问题的开玩笑的回答是,我每天晚上都会在后院的门廊上放一碗牛奶给“点子仙女”喝。早上,牛奶不见了,碗边出现了一个崭新的闪亮想法。

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Life is insanely robust, though we can make species go extinct, and this is the bad thing. So I always make the point that you can't say, 'Is it too late?' That is the terrible question, because either answer promotes inaction. If it's too late, you don't need to act; if it's not too late, you don't need to act.

尽管我们可以让物种灭绝,但生命是异常强健的,这是件坏事。所以我总是强调,你不能说,‘是不是太晚了?这是一个可怕的问题,因为任何一个答案都会导致无所作为。如果太晚了,你不需要采取行动;如果还不算太晚,你不需要采取行动。

I answer in the affirmative with an emphatic "No."

我的回答是肯定的,并强调“不”。