[Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in my head. I'm sitting here making grunting sounds and hopefully constructing a similar messy, confused idea in your head that bears some analogy to it.

  • -- W.Daniel Hillis W.丹尼尔·希利斯

如果你仔细想想,语言确实是一项非常了不起的发明。我脑子里有一个非常复杂,混乱,混乱的想法。我坐在这里发出咕哝的声音,希望在你的脑海中构建一个类似的混乱的,混乱的想法,与之类似。

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If I don't have a project going, I sit down and begin to write something - a character sketch, a monologue, a description of some sight, or even just a list of ideas.

如果我没有正在进行的项目,我会坐下来开始写一些东西——一个人物素描,一段独白,对一些场景的描述,甚至只是一串想法。

I had my moments for sure but I wasn't confrontational. And sometimes you get on the court and you'd find yourself very confrontational. It was all a discovery.

我确实有过这样的时刻,但我没有对抗性。有时候你在球场上,你会发现自己很有对抗性。这完全是一个发现。

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

当乔纳斯回到家,告诉他的妻子他迟到了三天,因为他被鲸鱼吞了。

The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

一个时代的思想是最丰富的,因为它不受原始思想的影响。

The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

好与坏,好与坏,只是简单的帮助或伤害。

We learn what we have said from those who listen to our speaking.

我们从那些听我们说话的人那里学习我们所说的话。