The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.

  • -- Howard Aiken 霍华德·艾肯

在算术计算中节省时间和脑力的愿望,以及消除人类易犯错误的倾向,可能和算术科学本身一样古老。

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If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.

如果科学推理局限于算术的逻辑过程,我们对物理世界的理解就不会走得太远。人们不妨尝试完全利用概率数学来把握扑克游戏。

Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.

我们这个时代的教育必须设法发现学生可能渴望完成的一切,并重建能够使他们自主地寻求完成的学习。

Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.

只要工作本身是轻的,为了节省时间,就有必要增加速度。

No trust = No relationship, just two people spending time together.

没有信任=没有关系,只有两个人在一起。

Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.

心理过程的词汇都来自于物理事物。

I am mentally bifocal.

我是双焦点的。