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[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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Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced.

接受一个想法。让这个想法成为你的生活——想它，梦想它，生活在这个想法上。让你的大脑，肌肉，神经，身体的每一部分都充满这种想法，不要去想其他的想法。这就是成功之道，伟大的精神巨人就是这样产生的。

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Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic.

亚里士多德和罗素的规则都没有给出任何普通语言表达的确切逻辑;因为普通语言没有确切的逻辑。

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Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.

纸上的字词、声音、字句，除了我们的想象力可以赋予它们以含义外，别无其他含义。

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I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.

我说我没有发明的能力。我也没有模仿的能力。

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The book is man's best invention so far.

这本书是迄今为止人类最好的发明。

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Ideas are self-replenishing, like snot.

想法是自我补充的，就像鼻涕。

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