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In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems.
我前世写过一个控制我物理实验的软件。那个软件必须处理设备中可能出现的各种故障。这可能就是我学会依靠我的系统内部和周围的多重安全网的地方。
Yet, I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages.
然而，我相信对高质量软件的需求是存在的，总有一天人们会认识到，在开发和使用基于安全的结构化语言的谨慎的结构化方法方面进行投资是值得的。
The vision is really that in the information age the microprocessor-based machine, the PC, along with great software, can become sort of the ultimate tool dealing with not just text, but numbers and pictures, and eventually, even difficult things lik.
我们的愿景是，在信息时代，以微处理器为基础的机器，个人电脑，连同伟大的软件，可以成为一种终极工具，不仅可以处理文本，还可以处理数字和图片，最终，甚至是一些困难的事情，比如。
One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible.
电脑的问题之一，尤其是对老年人来说，是他们被电脑搞糊涂了，而电脑已经变得更好了。它们变得更容易使用了。它们变得更便宜了。软件接口使事情变得更容易访问。
What you have in most education software is that they're catering to the decision-maker who makes the budget allocations, and that decision-maker has a lot of check boxes. Does it do this? Check. Does it do that? Check. They could care less about the end user experience.
在大多数教育软件中，你所拥有的是他们迎合了做预算分配的决策者，而那个决策者有很多复选框。它会这样做吗?检查。它会这样做吗?检查。他们可能不太关心最终用户体验。
The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it. And so you really can't make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple's the only company that has everything under one roof.
大多数个人电脑公司的工程学早就过时了。在消费类电子产品公司，他们不了解其中的软件部分。所以现在你真的不能在其他任何地方生产你在苹果可以生产的产品。苹果是唯一一家把所有东西都放在一个屋檐下的公司。
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Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.
计算机本身，以及尚未开发的软件，将彻底改变我们的学习方式。
By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run it. The term of copyright for software is effectively unlimited.
当苹果的麦金塔操作系统最终进入公众领域时，将不会有任何机器能够运行它。软件著作权的期限实际上是无限的。
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
在一个较晚的软件项目中添加人力会使它更晚。
On the back end, software programming tools and Internet-based services make it easy to launch new global software-powered start-ups in many industries - without the need to invest in new infrastructure and train new employees.
在后台，软件编程工具和基于互联网的服务使得在许多行业推出新的全球性软件驱动初创企业变得容易——不需要投资新的基础设施和培训新员工。
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
今天的大多数软件都很像埃及金字塔，由数百万块砖堆砌而成，没有完整的结构，只是靠蛮力和成千上万的奴隶完成的。
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
难道软件不像其他东西吗?难道软件就是要被抛弃的吗?难道软件就是要永远把它看作一个肥皂泡吗?