An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.

  • -- Thomas Mann 托马斯·曼

一种以语言为媒介的艺术总是会表现出高度的批判性创造性,因为语言本身就是对生活的一种批判:它通过创造来命名、描述、评判。

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The first stage in a technology's advance is that it'll fall below a critical price. After it falls below a critical price, it will tend, if it's successful, to rise above a critical mass, a penetration.

一项技术进步的第一阶段是它将跌破一个关键价格。在跌破临界价格后,如果成功,它将倾向于突破临界质量,进入市场。

Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.

球迷们往往会对这两种条纹过于兴奋,我认为媒体也是如此。应该有一个折中的办法。

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

当涉及到生活的时候,最重要的是你是把事情当做理所当然,还是怀着感激之情去对待它们。

Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.

也许黑白是表现风景的最好媒介,我不知道。