It's strange that we create tech and then we apply it to machines, when we could apply it to ourselves. Cars can now detect if something is behind them, but we don't have this ability. Why are we applying such a simple sense to a car when we could apply it to ourselves?

  • -- Neil Harbisson 哈比森

奇怪的是,我们创造了技术,然后把它应用到机器上,而我们可以把它应用到我们自己身上。汽车现在可以探测到背后是否有东西,但我们没有这种能力。为什么我们要把这样一个简单的概念应用到汽车上,而我们可以把它应用到我们自己身上呢?

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My mother has rheumatoid arthritis. I don't want to lose the ability to jump up and walk across the room or move around with the energy I'm used to having. That's far more important to me than a wrinkle or two.

我妈妈得了类风湿性关节炎。我不想失去跳起来、在房间里走动的能力,也不想失去用我已经习惯了的精力四处走动的能力。这对我来说比一两个皱纹重要得多。

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.

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。

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。

How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.

记忆的技巧是多么奇怪啊,它常常像一个人一生中最重要的事情的梦一样模糊不清,却虔诚地保存着最微不足道的琐事。

Strange to the world, he wore a bashful look, The fields his study, Nature was his book.

陌生的世界,他带着一副害羞的表情,田野是他的书房,自然是他的书。

Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.

成功就是那句老话——能力、突破和勇气。