If someone feels that they had never made a mistake in their life, then it means they had never tried a new thing in their life...

如果某人觉得自己一生中从未犯过错误，那么这就意味着他们一生中从未尝试过一件新事物……

If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.

如果我的生活中发生了什么事，它最终会进入我的生活。

If the industrial era was about building things, the social era is about connecting things, people and ideas.

如果说工业时代是关于建筑的，那么社会时代则是关于连接事物、人和思想的。

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

如果你面前的路是清晰的，你可能在别人的路上。

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.

如果现实世界是一本书，它将永远找不到出版商。过长，详细到让人分心的程度——最终，没有一个主要的解决方案。

If the story is good enough, if it's imaginative enough, if it's moving enough it is going to reach deeper than the level of sheer information and change somebody's life two degrees. That is an enormous achievement.

如果这个故事足够好，如果它足够有想象力，如果它足够感人，它将比纯粹的信息更深刻，并改变一个人的生活两度。这是一个巨大的成就。

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

如果整个宇宙没有意义，我们就永远不会发现它没有意义:就像如果宇宙中没有光，因此没有眼睛的生物，我们就永远不会知道它是黑暗的。黑暗将没有意义。

If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on a wall, I think we'd see, The beauty then and stand staring in awe.

如果这个世界能像墙上的一幅画一样留在一个画框里，我想我们会看到，那时的美，站在那里敬畏地凝视着。

If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I rise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savour) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

如果这个世界仅仅是诱人的，那就很容易了。如果仅仅是挑战，那就没有问题。但我早上起来时，却在改善(或拯救)世界的欲望和享受(或品味)世界的欲望之间左右为难。这使得计划一天的工作变得困难。

If there are things you don't like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.

如果在你成长的世界里有你不喜欢的东西，那就改变你自己的生活。

If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity.

如果这个星球上的每个人都需要一种生活技能，那就是批判性客观思考的能力。

If there was one thing that life has taught me, it’s to accept the most foolish and unthinkable happiness.

如果说生活教会了我一件事，那就是接受最愚蠢、最不可思议的幸福。

If there were more than one path to salvation then it would totally negate Jesus' sacrifice on the cross, his life, his teachings.

如果救恩的道路不止一条，那就完全否定了耶稣在十字架上的牺牲，他的生命，他的教导。

If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?

如果没有什么神秘的东西留给我们去探索，生活会变得相当枯燥，不是吗?

If there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood.

如果真有“终极文学主义”这种东西，你早就在童年时代就死了。