A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
科技
Technology
Gravity pulls our bodily fluids down, like water in a glass goes to the bottom part of a glass. In space, the water doesn't stay in the bottom of the glass. It distributes itself evenly over time throughout the entire volume of the glass
重力把我们的体液往下拉，就像玻璃杯里的水会流到玻璃杯的底部一样。在太空中，水不会停留在玻璃杯的底部。随着时间的推移，它均匀地分布在整个玻璃体积中
I think my imagination dictates the technologies I use. But at the same time, my imagination can be technologic. Sometimes I see a tool and I know immediately how to use it, but most of the time I use the tool for an idea I already have.
我认为我的想象力决定了我使用的技术。但与此同时，我的想象力可以是技术性的。有时我看到一个工具，我马上知道如何使用它，但大多数时候，我使用这个工具是为了一个我已经有了的想法。
And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.
自那时以来，我和你们一样，一直生活在冷战时期，在冷战期间，我们通过我们在破坏科学和技术方面的成就，确保了在这场战争悲剧中的第三次行动将导致灭绝和平。
If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by means of the fixed nuclear forces of those atoms, the whole of the world could thus be known by means of the natural sciences.
如果我们把物理世界的所有变化都归结为原子的运动，即由原子的固定核力所产生的运动，那么整个世界就可以由自然科学所知。
We finally found out the technique of separating and getting information about where every train would be at any moment. Of course, I went over budget many times, because - as you go along - some things improved, and you get better ideas.
我们终于找到了一种技术，可以把每辆火车随时分开，并得到它的位置信息。当然，我曾多次超出预算，因为随着时间的推移，有些事情得到了改善，你会有更好的想法。
I think a lot of the time these days people are so concerned about having the right camera and the right film and the right lenses and all the special effects that go along with it, even the computer, that they're missing the key element.
我认为现在很多时候，人们太在意拥有合适的相机，合适的胶片，合适的镜头，以及与之相伴的所有特效，甚至电脑，以至于他们忽略了关键元素。
If you like a wine that you drink, now with your phone, it's so easy. Just take a picture of the label. You learn about it. You learn where it comes from and what the soil is like and why you like it. And that'll lead you to another wine.
如果你喜欢喝葡萄酒，现在用你的手机，这很容易。给标签照张相就行了。你了解它。你知道它来自哪里，土壤是什么样的，以及你为什么喜欢它。这样你就能喝到另一种酒了。
As computers have become more powerful, computer graphics have advanced to the point where it's possible to create photo-realistic images. The bottleneck wasn't, 'How do we make pixels prettier?' It was, 'How do we engage with them more?'
随着计算机变得越来越强大，计算机图形学已经发展到可以创建逼真的照片的程度。瓶颈不在于“我们如何让像素更漂亮?”而是“我们如何与他们进行更多的接触?”
Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission.
在科学前进道路上遗留下来的所有失败的技术中——蒸汽马车、齐柏林飞艇、装甲火车——没有一项像上个世纪试图通过核裂变发电那样对繁荣造成如此灾难性的影响。
A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
一个典型的神经元与邻近的神经元之间有一万多个连接。考虑到数十亿的神经元，这意味着在一个立方厘米的脑组织中，连接的数量与银河系中恒星的数量一样多。
We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing.
我们开发技术是为了解决我们所有的焦虑和欲望。它们是我们的激情凝结成我们自己的这些假肢的延伸。他们所做的反映了我们梦想自己能够做的事情。
Well, we didn't have our original drummer on our last record. And most of that album was not played as a band in the studio. It was mostly the world of computers and overdubs. There was very few things played live or worked out as a band.
我们上一张唱片里没有原来的鼓手。而这张专辑的大部分并没有作为乐队在录音室里演奏。它主要是计算机和配音的世界。很少有现场演奏或乐队演奏的东西。
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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。
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。
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。
Wouldn't it be great if the technology we used to take care of ourselves was as good as the technology we use to make money?
如果我们用来照顾自己的技术和我们用来赚钱的技术一样好，那不是很棒吗?
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。