The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

  • -- George Santayana 乔治·桑塔亚纳

人类的非理性具有某种令人厌恶和可怕的东西,正如我们在疯子、吝啬鬼、醉汉或无尾猿身上所看到的那样。

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People think that the arts are optional and they aren't. They teach a level of emotional depth that's equally important to mathematic skill. You can replace some math skills with a calculator if you know how to operate the thing, but there's no calculator for human interaction.

人们认为艺术是可选的,但事实并非如此。他们教给学生一定程度的情感深度,这对数学技能同样重要。如果你知道如何操作计算器,你可以用它来代替一些数学技能,但是没有计算器来进行人机交互。

I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context.

我认为面试是可以的。只是害怕说错话或者断章取义。

The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.

汽车在技术上比捆绑板更为复杂,但人们使用它们的动机有时是相同的。

It was terrible on dates, because I could never eat when I was on a date.

约会很糟糕,因为我在约会的时候从来不吃东西。

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

我总是有一种令人厌恶的需要,那就是超越人类。