A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
科技
Technology
I love Twitter! At first I made fun of it, because it is very narcissistic, and there's already so much narcissism flowing in this industry, I was like, 'Really, one more?' So I was against it at first. But I really love the idea of the direct connection - there's no middle man muddling it up.
我爱推特!一开始我取笑它,因为它非常自恋,而且这个行业已经有很多自恋者在流动,我想,‘真的,还有一个吗?所以一开始我是反对的。但我真的很喜欢这种直接联系的想法——没有中间人把它搞砸。
Google docs and spreadsheets don't work if you're on an airplane. But it's a technical problem that is going to get solved. Eventually you will be able to work on a plane as if you are connected and, then when you get reconnected to the Internet, your computer will just synchronize with the cloud.
如果你在飞机上,谷歌文档和电子表格就不起作用了。但这是一个需要解决的技术问题。最终,你将能够在飞机上工作,就像你已经连接好了一样,然后当你重新连接到互联网时,你的电脑就会与云同步。
Trending topics helped make Twitter a more relevant metric of what the world was talking about at any given moment. Google has worked for years in the space, most notably with Google Trends and Hot Searches, but Google+ offers the search giant the ability to see what is truly trending in real time.
热门话题帮助推特成为一个更相关的指标,衡量世界在任何特定时刻所谈论的话题。谷歌已经在这个领域工作多年,最著名的是谷歌趋势和热门搜索,但谷歌+为搜索巨头提供了实时查看真正趋势的能力。
I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying.
我喜欢这个山谷。我喜欢公司建设。我喜欢创业公司。我喜欢科技公司。我喜欢新技术。我喜欢这个发明的过程。能够以创始人、产品创造者、投资者或董事会成员的身份参与其中,我感到非常满足。
I have no doubt that it is possible to give a new direction to technological development, a direction that shall lead it back to the real needs of man, and that also means: to the actual size of man. Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful. To go for giantism is to go for self-destruction.
我毫不怀疑,给技术发展指明一个新的方向是可能的,这个方向将使它回到人类的真正需要,这也意味着:回到人类的实际规模。人是渺小的,因此,渺小是美丽的。追求巨人主义就是追求自我毁灭。
As a nation we have, over the past seven years, been rebuilding our intelligence with powerful capabilities that many thought we would no longer need after the Cold War. We have been rebuilding our clandestine service, our satellite and other technical collection, our analytical depth and expertise.
作为一个国家,在过去的七年里,我们一直在以强大的能力重建我们的情报,许多人认为冷战后我们不再需要这些能力。我们一直在重建我们的秘密服务,我们的卫星和其他技术收集,我们的分析深度和专业知识。
If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.
如果在人类的经验中,有什么东西是计算机应该是什么样的先例,那就是一种乐器:一种你可以通过连接你的大脑和身体的接口探索各种可能性的设备,让你在情感上真实和富有表现力。
I like science fiction and physics, things like that. Planets being sucked into black holes, and the various vortexes that create possibility, and what happens on the other side of the black hole. To me it's the microcosmic study of the macrocosmic universe in man, and that's why I'm attracted to it.
我喜欢科幻小说和物理之类的东西。行星被吸进黑洞,各种漩涡创造了可能性,以及黑洞的另一边发生了什么。对我来说,这是对人类宏观宇宙的微观研究,这就是为什么我被它吸引。
If we intensify our efforts we can have a cloned baby within a year or two, but I don't know whether we can intensify our efforts to that extent. We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.
如果我们加强我们的努力,我们可以在一两年内有一个克隆婴儿,但我不知道我们是否可以加强我们的努力到那个程度。我们并不是真的有压力要把克隆婴儿送到这个世界上。我们所面临的压力是要接生一个健康的克隆婴儿。
If you Google some sites about the link between vaccines and autism, you can very quickly find that Google is repeating back to you your view about whether that link exists and not what scientists know, which is that there isn't a link between vaccines and autism. It's a feedback loop that's invisible.
如果你浏览一些关于疫苗和自闭症之间联系的网站,你很快就会发现,谷歌正在向你重复你的观点,即疫苗和自闭症之间是否存在联系,而不是科学家所知道的,也就是疫苗和自闭症之间没有联系。这是一个无形的反馈回路。
Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters - all connected to the next-generation internet using abundant, low-cost, and high-power computing.
感兴趣的项目将通过射频识别、传感器网络、微型嵌入式服务器和能源收割机等技术进行定位、识别、监控和远程控制,所有这些技术都使用丰富、低成本和高功率的计算技术连接到下一代互联网。
There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.
让世界上的每一个人都相互联系,让每个人都有发言权,帮助改造未来的社会,这是一个巨大的需求,也是一个巨大的机遇。必须建设的技术和基础设施的规模是前所未有的,我们认为这是我们可以关注的最重要的问题。
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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。
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 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。
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。
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。