You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least if you value your time and money.

  • -- James Surowiecki 索罗斯基

你可能认为消费是一种相当被动的行为,但购买新产品和服务实际上是相当冒险的,至少如果你珍惜你的时间和金钱的话。

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Some people have said that I can 'hear' a hit song, meaning that I can tell the first time a song is played for me if it has potential. I have been able to hear some of the hits that way, but I can also 'feel' one.

有些人说我能“听到”一首热门歌曲,意思是如果一首歌曲有潜力,我能知道它第一次为我播放。我已经能够通过这种方式听到一些热门歌曲,但我也能“感觉到”其中的一首。

If I'm excited about it, I'm pretty sure an audience is going to enjoy it. If I'm bored with an idea, you can bet they're going to be asleep. So I try to only do things that I'm fairly excited about.

如果我对此感到兴奋,我敢肯定观众会喜欢的。如果我对一个想法感到厌烦,你可以打赌他们一定会睡着。所以我尽量只做我很感兴趣的事情。

If you're unable to catch it in time, the cancer can spread to the lymph nodes and at that point, the cancer is essentially incurable, but that doesn't mean your condition can't be improved.

如果你不能及时发现,癌症就会扩散到淋巴结,到那时,癌症基本上是无法治愈的,但这并不意味着你的病情不能得到改善。

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

一个不能归结为日常经验的微小变化的概念,就像一种不能兑换为消费品的货币;它不是一个象征,而是一个骗局。

I'm a fairly undisciplined writer.

我是个相当无纪律的作家。