[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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When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy.

当我们远离全球变暖,京都议定书,当我们不负责任地在向非洲艾滋病迈进的道路上行动迟缓,当我们不推进和实践我们自己的言论和标准时,我们发出了一个可怕的信息,那就是表里不一和伪善。

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

电影摄影的可能性是无限的……比音乐和语言更重要。

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

你必须知道你要做什么,但它应该是一个模糊的概念。

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。

Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.

永远不要退却:这是一个可怜的发明。

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

女人的美德是男人最伟大的发明。