I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.

  • -- Ray Kurzweil 雷库兹韦尔

我是一个发明家。我之所以对长期趋势感兴趣,是因为一项发明必须在它完成的地方有意义,而不是在它开始的地方。

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It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world.

人们不可能忘记尊严,它标志着一个人成为工薪阶层的时刻。我觉得自己突然获得了对自己、对家庭、对世界的价值。

I call it like the domino theory of reality. If you can go one step at a time and it seems to make sense, you can then take your audience into an area that is relatively outlandish.

我称之为多米诺现实理论。如果你能一步一个脚印,而且似乎很有道理,你就能把你的观众带到一个相对奇怪的领域。

The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.

未来将部分由无法预见的事情决定;它还将受到目前存在和可以观察到的趋势的影响。

It is not often that the real world conjures worse than what we can imagine.

现实世界往往比我们想象的更糟。

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

贪婪是不公正的始作俑者,也是当前的执法者。

I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author.

我认为自己是一个发明家、企业家和作家。

We live in a very complex world.

我们生活在一个非常复杂的世界。