Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

  • -- Bertrand Russell 罗素

人们崇拜机器,因为它们美丽而珍贵,因为它们赋予权力;人们憎恨他们,因为他们丑陋不堪,憎恨他们,因为他们强加奴隶制度。

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Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and workers poorer, are indeed tending to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth.

许多技术正在以最快的速度向前发展,用机器取代工厂和办公室里的工人,让股东变得更富有,让工人变得更贫穷,这些技术确实倾向于加剧财富分配方面现有的不平等。

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

我们的朋友通常愿意为我们做任何事情,除了我们希望他们做的事情。

Our bodies are machines and have to be functional, and to do that they have to be fed properly.

我们的身体是机器,必须有功能,要做到这一点,它们必须得到适当的喂养。

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

长期奴役妇女是人类历史上最黑暗的一页。

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

战争是和平。自由则是一种苦役。无知就是力量。

It is easy to manage when fortune favors.

运气好的时候很容易管理。