The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

  • -- Carson McCullers 卡森·麦卡勒斯

心灵就像一幅织得很厚的织锦,其中的色彩是从感官的经验中提炼出来的,图案是从智力的错综复杂中提炼出来的。

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And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that you probably spend more time in planning and training and designing for things to go wrong, and how you cope with them, than you do for things to go right.

我认为这一点仍然适用于这个行业——基本上是研究和开发——你可能会花更多的时间在计划、培训和设计上,以应对可能出现的问题,以及如何应对这些问题,而不是花更多的时间去做正确的事情。

Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.

人类习惯于认为智力是拥有和控制思想的力量,学习能力是拥有思想的能力的同义词。但是,通过有想法来学习,实际上是自然界中罕见而孤立的事件之一。

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

除了智力之外,还有一些其他的能力是理解现实所必需的。

Women and men do not live according to the same design.

女人和男人的生活方式不同。