We can't manipulate some stars while maintaining other stars as controls; we can't start and stop ice ages, and we can't experiment with designing and evolving dinosaurs.

  • -- Jared Diamond 戴蒙德

我们不能在控制一些恒星的同时操纵另一些恒星;我们不能开始和停止冰河时代,我们也不能试验设计和进化恐龙。

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Now the whole point about machines is they are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it to be different every time you call it up. You want it to stay the same.

机器的关键在于它们不是随机设计的。当你在电脑上调用一个文字处理程序时,你不希望每次调用时它都不一样。你希望它保持不变。

Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.

虽然我的设计作品在形式上和视觉上对我的艺术作品有很大的影响,但是在意义和内容上,这两种做法是分开的。