Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed, they won't function at all.

  • -- Ralph Merkle 拉尔夫·默克尔

人类制造的机器,如果我们给它们提供一个非常特殊的环境,它们就能正常工作。但是如果环境发生了变化,它们就完全不能工作了。

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Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things.

像我父亲一样,我小时候也不会把任何东西扔掉,把旧玩具、电动机和破机器的碎片放在床底下我称之为“有用的东西盒子”里。

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

人们崇拜机器,因为它们美丽而珍贵,因为它们赋予权力;人们憎恨他们,因为他们丑陋不堪,憎恨他们,因为他们强加奴隶制度。