If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.

  • -- Fred Saberhagen 弗雷德·萨卜哈根

如果有人问我成功的要素,我说一个是天赋,两个是固执或决心,第三个是纯粹的运气。你必须有三个中的两个。任何两个都可以。

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Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.

即使通过直接经济手段争取平等,也只能导致官方强制实行的不平等- -在新的等级秩序中对每个人的地位作出专制的决定。

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.

无论我拥有什么才能,都可能突然减少或增加。我可以轻松地变成一个普通的傻瓜。我现在可能就是其中之一。但这并不会破坏一个人的虚荣心。

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

如果我从飞机上掉到海里,告诉他们最近的陆地在一千英里之外,我仍然会游泳。我鄙视那些放弃的人。

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

任何卖不出去的东西,我都不想发明。它的销售是效用的证明,效用就是成功。

When people think it's successful, I'm grateful. When they don't - OK, I'll try again.

当人们认为它是成功的,我很感激。当他们没有-好的,我再试一次。

Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.

有些人认为他们值很多钱只是因为他们拥有它。

My talent is to speak my mind. God won't object if you bury that talent.

我的才能是说出我的想法。如果你埋没了天赋,上帝不会反对的。

I hate wasting people's time.

我讨厌浪费别人的时间。