About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.

  • -- Edsger Wybe Dijkstra 艾兹格·迪科斯彻

关于语言的使用:用钝斧头削铅笔是不可能的。试着用十根钝斧头代替它也是徒劳的。

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A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.

一支铅笔和一块橡皮比一群助手更有用。幸福和真理是一样的:一个人没有幸福,但却拥有幸福。

There has to be policies about that, about what materials we use and so on.

必须有相关的政策,关于我们使用什么材料等等。

What language are you talking in now? It appears to be bollocks.

你在说什么语言?这似乎是一派胡言。

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

语言具有隐藏的力量,就像潮汐上的月亮。