A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
愿景
Vision
You look at the world around you, and you take it apart into all its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens.
你看你周围的世界,你把它分解成所有的组成部分。然后你取其中的一些组件,把它们扔掉,然后把不同的组件插进去,启动它,看看会发生什么。
To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two.
对我来说,幻想一直是一种逃避,科幻小说是一种思想。所以如果你能逃出来,也有一些想法,也许你在这两者之间有某种杂交。
If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.
如果我们对人类生活中所有平凡的东西都有敏锐的洞察力,那就像听到草长出来或者松鼠的心跳,我们就会死于那咆哮,那是沉默的另一面。
I've lived in many things - boats, caravans, and buses. I've been homeless, I've had no money: everything. But I believe in magic, and having a vision. The tough times made me a warrior. I work hard.
我住过许多东西——船、大篷车和公共汽车。我无家可归,我没有钱,什么都没有。但我相信魔法,相信有远见。艰难的岁月使我成为一名战士。我努力工作。
As for the long-term future: I am prepared to see in this a vision, not a mystical way but in a realistic way, of a population exchange on a much more important scale and including larger territories.
关于长期的未来:我准备从这一远见中看到一种更重要的规模上的人口交流,包括更大的领土,这不是一种神秘的方式,而是一种现实的方式。
I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak.
我认为有一种持续不断的努力涉及到试图获得一个更广阔的视角,试图放开那些限制你去爱和被爱的能力或你去听和真正说话的能力的事情。
I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.
我发现,在工作中,总是有一些令人不安的干扰,而这些干扰并不是我最感兴趣的愿景的一部分,而且随着工作的进行,这种愿景不可避免地会被抹去或取代。
So not only do we need to deal with threats as they emerge, we have to be thinking in anticipation of future threats, and the things we do have to be things that enable the system to continue to work.
因此,我们不仅需要在威胁出现时应对它们,我们还必须对未来的威胁有所预期,我们所做的事情必须能够使这个系统继续运转。
My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-fuel on Mars - this is very important - so you don't have to carry the return fuel when you go there.
我的设想是在地球和火星之间建立一个完全可重复使用的火箭运输系统,能够在火星上重新加油——这非常重要——所以你去火星时不必携带返回的燃料。
When I want an opinion, I'll get it from my peers - from men of vision, like our great railroad builders... Stanford, Huntington, Dinsmore... fellows with imaginations broad enough to span the continent.
当我想要一个意见时,我会从我的同行那里得到——从有远见的人那里,比如我们伟大的铁路建设者那里……斯坦福大学,亨廷顿,丁斯莫尔……有足够的想象力跨越大陆的人。
As we know from the work of certain fundamental physicists, people like Einstein were very dependent upon conjuring up visual images in order to imagine things which otherwise were not easily formulated.
正如我们从某些基础物理学家的工作中所知道的,像爱因斯坦这样的人非常依赖于用想象的视觉图像来想象那些不容易表述的东西。
When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space.
当我设计建筑的时候,我考虑的是整体的组成,就像一个身体的各个部分会组合在一起一样。最重要的是,我想人们将如何接近建筑和体验那个空间。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.
诗歌不仅仅是一组相互关联的词语;它远不止于此,它能让我们一瞥我们对世界的看法。
The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.
世界也许会破碎,但希望并不疯狂。
Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible.
梦总是通过挑战我们对真实和可能的界限来扩展我们对现实的理解。
Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.
智慧意味着用最好的方法追求最好的结果。
What inspires me most are people who imagine and implement solutions to challenges in their own lives, in their communities, in our country and around the world.
最鼓舞我的是那些在他们自己的生活中、在他们的社区中、在我们的国家和全世界为挑战设想和实施解决方案的人。
Imagination doesn't always mean looking outside of the box, but taking a closed box and seeing a different world from within it.
想象并不总是意味着往盒子外看,而是从一个封闭的盒子里看一个不同的世界。