Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.

  • -- Edward de Bono 爱德华·德·波诺

处理复杂性是一种低效且不必要的时间、注意力和精力的浪费。当事情本来可以简单的时候,却没有任何理由把它复杂化。

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I think parenthood is a wonderful balancing act. On the one hand, you want to spend as much time with your children as possible. On the other hand, you want to set an example for them to see that you're fulfilled in your life and in your work.

我认为为人父母是一个很好的平衡行为。一方面,你想花尽可能多的时间和你的孩子在一起。另一方面,你想给他们树立一个榜样,让他们看到你在生活和工作中感到满足。

Being a food show and being me, I always kicked it up a notch, which means I would always elevate the spice level or the complexity of a particular dish. So, it was always like we're going to kick this up a little bit.

作为一个美食秀,作为我自己,我总是把它提高一个档次,这意味着我总是会提高某道菜的香料水平或复杂性。所以,我们总是想要把这个弄大一点。

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

每一个哲学问题,当它经过必要的分析和论证时,就会发现,要么不是真正的哲学问题,要么就是我们所说的逻辑问题。

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

我们面对的是历史上受教育程度最高的一代。但他们的大脑却无处可去。

What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.

我所面对的是如此巨大和伟大,它不能被称为真理。它在真理之上。

Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest.

然而,这场战争的模式、理由和所有游戏都是不诚实的。

For seven years I did very little theatre, and I have to make up some time.

七年来,我很少演戏剧,我得找时间弥补。

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

叙事的目的是向我们呈现复杂性和模糊性。