A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy.

电脑就像旧约里的上帝，有很多规则，没有仁慈。

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

有一次电脑下棋赢了我，但我打拳击就不行了。

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

与电脑屏幕相比，书的一个奇妙之处在于，你可以把它带到床上。

Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.

使用电脑和互联网已经成为我们社会教育的基本需求。

After all, computers crash, people die, relationships fall apart. The best we can do is breath and reboot.

毕竟，电脑崩溃了，人死了，关系破裂了。我们能做的最好的事情就是呼吸和重新启动。

All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?

当我们想到今天的孩子们，我们所能做的就是想到更多的上学时间，更早的使用电脑，以及宵禁。谁会想在那样的世界里长大?

And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new technology, 'cos as I mentioned before, we were back of seven, eight years.

购买新机器不仅意味着生产的可能性，甚至意味着新技术，因为正如我之前提到的，我们回到了七八年以前。

And then you start getting into the technical side of it and the aesthetic side and with those areas you can come up with new ways to visualise things, new ways to render and use the computer to make things look different and new and stuff like that.

然后你开始进入它的技术方面和美学方面，有了这些领域，你可以想出新的方法来视觉化事物，新的方法来渲染和使用计算机使事物看起来不同和新的，诸如此类。

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.

任何在使用电脑时忘记时间的人都知道梦想的倾向、实现梦想的冲动和错过午餐的倾向。

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

通常，软件系统只有在实际应用中使用过并多次失败之后才能正常工作。

Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.

因为我相信人是电脑，所以我猜想电脑和人一样，也有左手和右手的版本。

Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.

漫画书不是书呆子。如果你认为电脑是书呆子，那你一定是个白痴。

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

计算机科学与计算机的关系并不比天文学与望远镜的关系大。

Computer: a million morons working at the speed of light.

电脑:一百万个白痴以光速工作。

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

计算机以能够从简单的程序开始做复杂的事情而闻名。