A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
科技
Technology
I always find myself stopping to write down ideas of things I'd like to make from computer hardware items to things new moms need - inventions to share with others to make their lives more fun or interesting or easy.
我总是停下来写下我想做的事情的想法，从电脑硬件到新妈妈们需要的东西——与他人分享的发明，让他们的生活更有趣或简单。
I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.
对不起，这是真的。有孩子真的会改变你对这些事情的看法。我们出生，只活了短暂的一瞬间，然后就死了。这已经发生很长时间了。技术并没有给它带来多大改变——如果有的话。
Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.
许多人认为技术是所谓数字鸿沟背后的问题。其他人则认为这是解决方案。技术既不是。它必须与商业、经济、政治和社会制度共同运作。
I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories.
我每天都要把所有的时间花在工作上，阅读和编辑有关前沿技术研究的论文，并从中获得报酬。然后我晚上回家，把学到的东西变成科幻小说。
If coal is going to be used, the only response - because it is the dirtiest of all fuels - is that we have to learn how to do carbon capture and storage and we have to learn how to do it quickly on a commercial scale.
如果要使用煤炭，唯一的反应——因为煤炭是所有燃料中最脏的——是我们必须学会如何进行碳捕获和储存，我们必须学会如何快速地在商业规模上实现这一点。
Well, for over a year now at my desk, a prototype program of Luigi and Mario has been running on my monitor. We've been thinking about the game, and it may be something that could work on a completely new game system.
一年多来，路易吉和马里奥的原型程序一直在我的显示器上运行。我们一直在思考这款游戏，它可能是一款全新的游戏系统。
During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.
在过去的几十年里，现代技术，包括无线电、电视、航空旅行和卫星，编织了一个通讯网络，使世界上的每一个角落都能与其他地方几乎立即联系起来。
It was not simply out of a spirit of contradiction that I exposed a light source to magnetic forces. The idea came to me during an investigation of the effect discovered by Kerr on light reflected by magnetic mirrors.
我把光源暴露在磁力下，并不仅仅是出于矛盾的精神。我是在研究克尔发现的对磁镜反射光线的影响时想到这个主意的。
If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.
如果我们能通过纳米技术的进步降低成本并提高医疗技术的质量，我们就能更广泛地解决普遍存在的医疗条件并减少人类的痛苦。
The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.
另一方面，口头解释，即量子物理学的形而上学，则没有那么坚实的基础。事实上，四十多年来，物理学家们一直未能提供一个清晰的形而上学模型。
My list of basic tools is a partial answer to the question about what has changed: Over the past few years, large numbers of programmers have come to depend on elaborate tools to interface code with systems facilities.
我列出的基本工具部分回答了关于发生了什么变化的问题:在过去几年里，大量程序员开始依赖复杂的工具来将代码与系统工具进行接口。
Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence.
如果你觉得这些岛屿在空间和时间上仍然太遥远，与我们的现代社会没有关系，那就想想其中的风险吧……我们日益全球化和全球经济日益相互依存。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a search engine, is the web was so open. Once you get too many rules, that will stifle innovation.
我们开发谷歌的环境，我们能够开发搜索引擎的原因，是网络是如此的开放。一旦你制定了太多的规则，就会扼杀创新。
The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
我们拥有的，而机器没有的，是展示智慧的能力。
Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.
人类的每一项发明、每一件工具、每一件仪器、每一件器物、每一种为使用而设计的物品，都是从非常简单的开始发展起来的。
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。
Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.
技术给了我们力量，但它没有也不能告诉我们如何使用这种力量。多亏了科技，我们可以在世界各地即时交流，但它仍然不能帮助我们知道该说什么。
Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience.
尽管技术上有了很大的进步，但归根结底还是一个男人或一个女人和麦克风，播放音乐，分享故事，谈论问题——与观众交流。