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Technology
There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.
在技术或管理技术方面，没有一项单独的发展能够保证在十年之内在生产力、可靠性和简洁性方面有一个数量级的改进。
I think that the balance needs to be restored, and I would note that in the camp in which I am in, one finds libraries, universities, the Internet industry, the manufacturers of digital media, and consumers.
我认为需要恢复平衡，我要指出，在我所处的阵营中，有图书馆、大学、互联网行业、数字媒体制造商和消费者。
I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.
我坚信，任何能够增进沟通的工具，都会对人们如何互相学习，以及如何获得他们感兴趣的那种自由，产生深远的影响。
Time travel may be achieved one day, or it may not. But if it is, it should not require any fundamental change in world-view, at least for those who broadly share the world view I am presenting in this book.
时间旅行可能有一天会实现，也可能不会。但如果是这样，它不应该要求对世界观进行任何根本性的改变，至少对于那些与我在本书中所阐述的世界观有着广泛共识的人来说是这样。
However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions.
然而，编写没有缺陷的软件是不够的。根据我的经验，编写安全的软件至少和编写在不利条件下行为合理的软件一样困难。
We incorporate various electronic devices - the echo plugs and things like that. Actually, all we're trying to do is make that sound musical. As opposed to just making sounds, we do musical things with them.
我们整合了各种各样的电子设备——回声插头之类的东西。实际上，我们想做的就是让它听起来像音乐。与仅仅发出声音相反，我们用它们来做音乐。
There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!
有一种计算机疾病是任何从事计算机工作的人都知道的。这是一种非常严重的疾病，它完全干扰了工作。电脑的问题是你“玩弄”它们!
After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that.
当我意识到我们最终能够制造出分子机器，可以把原子排列成我们想要的任何形状之后，我看到了很多可怕的后果。
In the animation world, people who understand pencils and paper usually aren't computer people, and the computer people usually aren't the artistic people, so they always stand on opposite sides of the line.
在动画世界里，懂铅笔和纸的人通常不是电脑人，电脑人通常也不是艺术家，所以他们总是站在对立面。
The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.
强磁场的应用使测量最具穿透性的粒子的能量成为可能，该方法还可以进一步推广和改进。
The basic scientific conclusions on climate change are very robust and for good reason. The greenhouse effect is simple science: greenhouse gases trap heat, and humans are emitting ever more greenhouse gases.
关于气候变化的基本科学结论非常有力，而且有充分的理由。温室效应是一门简单的科学:温室气体捕捉热量，而人类正在排放越来越多的温室气体。
I will continue my activities related to education in one way or another. I certainly would have at the top my agenda, with respect to education, the need to do much better with modern educational technology.
我将以这样或那样的方式继续我的与教育有关的活动。我当然会把我的首要任务放在教育上，那就是用现代教育技术做得更好。
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All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.
人类创造的所有最伟大的技术发明——飞机、汽车、电脑——很少提到他的智力，但却充分说明了他的懒惰。
You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It's logic-based creativity.
你可能不认为程序员是艺术家，但编程是一种极具创造性的职业。它是基于逻辑的创造力。
People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?
人们今天比以往活得更长。他们过着更快乐的生活，拥有更多的知识和信息。所有这些都是通信技术的结果。有什么不好的?
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
对于一项成功的技术，现实必须凌驾于公共关系之上，因为自然是不会被愚弄的。
The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.
信息技术的最大好处是它使人们能够做他们想做的事情。它让人们变得有创造力。它让人们更有效率。它让人们学习他们以前认为自己学不到的东西，所以从某种意义上说，这一切都是关于潜力的。
The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
发明的进步赋予了人类一个世纪前最大胆的想象所无法想象的力量。