By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run it. The term of copyright for software is effectively unlimited.

  • -- Lawrence Lessig 劳伦斯·莱辛

当苹果的麦金塔操作系统最终进入公众领域时,将不会有任何机器能够运行它。软件著作权的期限实际上是无限的。

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What matters here are the works - finally without them his life would be uninteresting. What matters, that is, are the astonishing things that he left behind. If we can get the life in relation to the works, then it can take off.

这里重要的是他的作品——没有它们,他的生活最终会变得索然无味。重要的是,他留下了一些惊人的东西。如果我们能把生活与作品联系起来,那么它就能起飞。

When I am out and about I feel watched. It's become second nature. The only time I get to be private is in my work. That is when I liberate the ego. The blessed-out sensation of liberating the ego.

当我外出走动时,我感到有人在监视着我。这已成为第二天性。我唯一能独处的时间就是我的工作。那就是我解放自我的时候。解放自我的幸福感觉。

I want to avoid locking people into solutions that work only with Postfix. People should have a choice in what software they want to use with Postfix, be it anti-virus or otherwise.

我希望避免将人们锁定在只使用后缀的解决方案中。人们应该有一个选择,他们想用什么软件与后缀,无论是反病毒或其他。

Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.

感谢上帝,我们将继续努力,通过边境巡逻队、海关部门、海岸警卫队和武装部队有效地保卫我们的边境。

What's cool about indie rock is that one band can do effectively the same thing as another band, and one band nails it, and the other one doesn't. I like that elusiveness.

独立摇滚的酷之处在于,一个乐队可以和另一个乐队做同样的事情,而另一个乐队做不到。我喜欢那种飘忽不定的感觉。

Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.

一个接一个地与专利作斗争永远不会消除软件专利的危险,就像打蚊子不会消除疟疾一样。

One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.

一个公司可以随时满足你的一些需求,或者可以随时满足你的所有需求,但绝不是两者兼而有之。

I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage.

当我走上舞台时,我终于感到我进入了自己的世界。