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愚蠢
Stupidity
People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it-ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.
人们的无知真让我生气。愚蠢是当你无法控制自己的时候——无知是当你选择不去理解一些事情的时候。
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
人们在试图设计完全傻瓜的东西时常犯的一个错误是低估了完全傻瓜的独创性。
When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid, it can't last long." But though a war may be "too stupid," that doesn't prevent its lasting.
当战争爆发时,人们说:“这太愚蠢了,不会持续太久的。”尽管战争可能“太愚蠢”,但这并不妨碍它的持久。
I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity.
我没有高潮,但有时我希望我能高潮。这样,当我把生活搞砸的时候,我就有借口了。但现在愚蠢是没有康复的。
It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.
正是因为国家倾向于愚蠢和卑劣,人类才行动得如此缓慢;正是因为个人有能力做更好的事情,它才会发生变化。
Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns.
善良胜过贪婪:它要求分享。仁慈战胜恐惧:它唤起感激和爱。善良甚至胜过愚蠢,因为有了分享和爱,一个人会学会。
Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.
一些科学家声称,由于氢如此丰富,它是宇宙的基本组成部分。我的争端。我说,比氢更愚蠢的是,氢是宇宙的基本组成部分。
I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.
面对他们令人作呕的愚蠢和残忍,我尽我所能站了起来,但我当然没能在他们的游戏中打败他们。这是一场至苦至终的战斗,在这场战斗中,我不是在捍卫理想或信念,而是在捍卫我自己。
When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.
当人们认为地球是平的时候,他们错了。当人们认为地球是球形的时候,他们错了。但是,如果你认为认为地球是球形和认为地球是扁平一样错误,那么你的观点就比这两种观点加起来还要错误。
I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?
我没有时间为自己的判断和他们的愚蠢,你知道他们用丑陋的妻子躺在他们的丑陋的孩子面前,看看他们的失败者的生活然后他们看着我说,‘我不能处理好,不,你永远不会停止,只是坐下来,好好享受自己的人生。你知道吗?
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The trouble with the world is that the stupid are so confident while the intelligent are full of doubt.
这个世界的问题在于,愚蠢的人如此自信,而聪明的人充满怀疑。
Stupidity fuses notoriety and celebrity.
愚蠢融合了恶名和名人。
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
自负是一种麻醉剂,它能减轻愚蠢带来的痛苦。
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
有两件事是无限的:宇宙和人类的愚蠢;我对宇宙也不是很确定。
First, God created idiots. That was just for practice. Then He created school boards.
首先,上帝创造了白痴。那只是练习。然后他创建了学校董事会。
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
创造力是愚蠢的突然停止。