I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

  • -- Thomas Carlyle 托马斯·卡莱尔

我越来越尊重事实,越来越不尊重理论。在我看来,事实是一件伟大的事情;一个句子,如果不是上帝印的,那么至少是魔鬼印的。

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I'm interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think it's the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really can't be this way.

我对商业艺术中通常被认为是最糟糕的方面感兴趣。我认为这是一种张力,在似乎如此刻板和陈词滥调和艺术真的不可能这样的事实之间。

The economy in the Valley will need to grow if students want to come back and work with their specialized degrees. We need to develop more to create more opportunities.

如果学生们想回来拿着专业学位工作,硅谷的经济就需要增长。我们需要发展更多,创造更多的机会。

After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

毕竟,只有风格才能让后人评判一部伟大的作品,因为一个作家除了风格之外,别无他法。

As for money - when I have it, it's great. When I don't, I go get some. I've been a dishwasher, a gardener, a cleaner.

至于钱,当我有了它,它是伟大的。如果没有,我就去买一些。我做过洗碗工、园丁、清洁工。

The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.

土拨鼠很擅长躲避。如果有人想要抓土拨鼠,他们就会去挖洞。

What do you want your business to do? Make money, of course. To pay for people and supplies, to be able to grow.

你希望你的公司做什么?当然是赚钱。为人民和物资买单,才能成长。

A long-term crisis, after a certain point, no longer seems like a crisis. It seems like the way things are.

一个长期的危机,经过一定的时间点,就不再像危机了。事情就是这样。

The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.

发现的秘密是永远不要相信现存的事实。

Our job is to bring the dead facts to life.

我们的工作是使死去的事实复活。

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

老朋友的成长需要很长时间。

Honour follows those who flee from it.

荣誉跟随着逃避荣誉的人。

I do honour the very flea of his dog.

我非常尊敬他的狗身上的跳蚤。