History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.

  • -- Henry Ford 亨利福特

历史或多或少是胡扯。这是传统。我们不想要传统。我们想活在当下,唯一值得修补的历史就是我们今天创造的历史。

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Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the springing of the year.

哦,让我们今天在花中得到快乐; 让我们不要想得那么远 如同不确定的收获;让我们在这里 一切都简单地发生在春天。

Culture is the bed-rock, the final wall, against which one leans one’s back in a g-d-forsaken chaos.

文化是床岩,是最后一堵墙,在这堵墙的衬托下,一个人仰卧在被遗弃的混乱之中。

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.

我一直想成为大人物,但现在我意识到我应该更具体一些。

I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.

我满足于坚持传统。我甚至更乐意在上面擦脚。