[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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Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.

思想的产生具有爆炸性的即时性,就像一个瞬间的诞生。人类的思想就像一个巨大的钟摆;它一直从一个极端摇摆到另一个极端。

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

一个人不是因为全神贯注于思考而无所事事。有看得见的劳动,也有看不见的劳动。

English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.

英语应该是我们的官方语言。阅读和说英语是成为公民的必要条件。

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。

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.

舞蹈是身体灵魂隐藏的语言。