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Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.
在过去的三十年里，技术的进步超过了前两千年。进步的指数增长只会继续下去。人类学的评论与琐碎事实相反的是错误的;伟大真理的反面也是正确的。
I am reported to be ‘pessimistic’ about broadcasting... The truth is that I have anticipated its complete disappearance - confident that the unfortunate people, who must now subdue themselves to ‘listening-in’, will soon find a better pastime for their leisure.
据报道，我对广播持“悲观”态度。事实上，我已经预料到它会完全消失——我相信，那些不幸的人们，现在必须屈服于“倾听”，很快就会找到一种更好的休闲方式。
Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.
物理学变得如此复杂，以至于培养一个物理学家需要的时间越来越长。事实上，要把一个物理学家培养到能够理解物理问题本质的程度需要很长时间，以至于他已经老得无法解决这些问题了。
I understand the worries of many - not only here in this auditorium -, and some have already written to me to say that technical progress has lowered the threshold that stops people from helping themselves to protected works without the slightest embarrassment.
我理解许多人的担忧——不仅仅是在这个礼堂里——有些人已经写信给我说，技术进步已经降低了门槛，阻止人们毫无顾忌地帮助自己保护作品。
From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years it might well appear to the layman that the main problems were already solved and that only more detailed work was necessary.
考虑到物理学，特别是原子物理学领域新发现的大量事实，近年来外行人很可能会认为，主要问题已经解决，只需要更详细的工作。
Digital has obviously changed things a lot, but not all for the better as far as I'm concerned. Of course it's much more convenient and you're getting instant results, but to me it just lacks the finesse of a roll of film and it has a slightly superimposed feel.
数字显然改变了很多事情，但在我看来，并不是所有的事情都变得更好。当然，它更方便，你得到即时的结果，但对我来说，它只是缺乏一卷胶卷的技巧，它有轻微的重叠的感觉。
According to well-known electrodynamic laws, an electron moving in a magnetic field is acted upon by a force which runs perpendicular to the direction of motion of the electron and to the direction of the magnetic field, and whose magnitude is easily determined.
根据众所周知的电动学定律，在磁场中运动的电子受到垂直于电子运动方向和磁场方向的力的作用，其大小很容易确定。
People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium. [We] need to pay some more attention to that, because it's actually kind of fragile.
人们主要关注的是保护互联网上的计算机，但令人惊讶的是，很少有人关注保护互联网本身作为一种通信媒介。(我们)需要对此给予更多关注，因为它实际上有点脆弱。
Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description.
就像望远镜或电话一样，电视使我们能够看到或听到我们从未梦想过的东西。当你观察细节时，人与人之间的具体场景是不太可能发生的，是需要扩展描述的微妙的事情。
I think they need to get a more reliable way of watching television on the laptop. Because I travel so much, if I want to watch my favorite sports team it might not be showing in that place, so I want a reliable way to watch whatever I want to watch on my laptop.
我认为他们需要一种更可靠的方式在笔记本电脑上看电视。因为我经常旅行，如果我想看我最喜欢的球队的比赛，它可能不会在那个地方播放，所以我想要一种可靠的方式来观看我想在笔记本上看的任何比赛。
Because of the Turing completeness theory, everything one Turing-complete language can do can theoretically be done by another Turing-complete language, but at a different cost. You can do everything in assembler, but no one wants to program in assembler anymore.
由于图灵完备性理论，一种图灵完备语言所能做的任何事情理论上都可以由另一种图灵完备语言来完成，但代价不同。你可以用汇编器做任何事情，但是没有人想再用汇编器编程了。
I don't believe in technological determinism, especially not in biology and medicine. We have strong laws to keep doctors from monkeying around with humans that will remain in place. It's simply not true that everything that is technologically possible gets done.
我不相信技术决定论，尤其是生物学和医学。我们有强有力的法律来阻止医生对人类乱搞，而这些法律将继续存在。并非所有技术上可行的事情都能完成。
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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。
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。
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?
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。
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。
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。