The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

  • -- C. Northcote Parkinson 帕金森

琐事定律…简单地说,这意味着在议程任何项目上花费的时间将与所涉数额成反比。

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I hate politics. I like to write about it, but to get involved in it, to try and make a lot of ignorant people do what you want them to do, waste of time. Go and write a book. It's more important and it'll last longer.

我讨厌政治。我喜欢写这方面的文章,但要参与其中,让很多无知的人做你想让他们做的事,是在浪费时间。去写一本书。这更重要,也更持久。

I never regret things. It's a really dangerous thing to say, but for anyone involved in the arts, the bad things that happen make for good material. It's not a comfortable truth, but it is true.

我从不后悔。这是一件非常危险的事情,但是对于任何从事艺术的人来说,不好的事情会成为好的素材。这不是一个令人舒服的事实,但却是事实。

So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.

就纪律而言,自由并不意味着没有纪律,而是使用更高、更理性的形式,而不是使用较低或较不理性的形式。

People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.

人们在我们的生活中进进出出,而友谊的真正考验是你是否能从上次见面时停下的地方重新开始。

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.

使第十四条修正案产生的目的是在法律面前人人平等,而平等,而不是分离,被写进了法律。

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

道德行为的质量与参与其中的人数成反比。

There is often an inverse correlation between genius and personal hygiene.

天才和个人卫生之间往往存在着一种负相关关系。

But I'll tell you this: When I lose my athleticism, it's time to go.

但我要告诉你:当我失去运动能力的时候,是时候离开了。

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

我们不能理解的东西,我们可以使它变得有意义。