A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
科技
Technology
As we go through this transition where a lot more people will be reading on devices, nobody is paying enough attention to make sure it's a smooth transition. I believe we still need places where people can go to handle, hold and talk about books, get information about what books are out there, and so on.
当我们经历这一转变时，将有更多的人在设备上阅读，但没有人足够关注确保这是一个平稳的转变。我相信我们仍然需要一个地方，人们可以去处理，持有和谈论书籍，获得关于书籍的信息，等等。
Tinguely wasn't the first artist to work with machines. But others were more interested in precision, in what machines are meant to do. What made him different was the random element. He introduced the mechanical accident. He was always interested in the immaterial, in sound, smoke, speed, light, shadows.
廷格利并不是第一个使用机器的艺术家。但其他人对精度更感兴趣，对机器的功能更感兴趣。使他与众不同的是随机因素。他介绍了这次机械事故。他总是对非物质感兴趣，对声音、烟雾、速度、光线和阴影。
On the simplest level, telecommuting makes it harder for people to have the kinds of informal interactions that are crucial to the way knowledge moves through an organization. The role that hallway chat plays in driving new ideas has become a cliche of business writing, but that doesn't make it less true.
在最简单的层面上，远程办公使人们更难进行非正式的互动，而这种互动对知识在组织中的传播方式至关重要。走廊聊天在推动新想法方面所扮演的角色，已经成为商业写作中的陈词滥调，但这并不会降低它的真实性。
I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.
我认为它使世界更加紧密地团结在一起，并将继续这样做。凡事都有缺点;任何事情都有意想不到的后果。我所见过的最具腐蚀性的技术叫做电视——但是，再说一遍，电视，在它最好的时候，是壮丽的。
Technologically we can deliver the ability of parents to be able to log into a school intranet, be able to see what homework has been set or look at lesson planning, whether the child is attending, see what the timetable is like, all of that is possible and there are some schools that are doing it already.
技术我们可以交付能力的家长能够登录学校内部网,能够看到什么作业设置或查看规划课,孩子是否参加,看到的时间表是什么样子,这一切都是可能的,一些学校已经这样做了。
The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.
总的来说，新技术不一定会取代旧技术，但它会使旧技术过时。通过定义。最终，它将取代它。但这就像当彩色电视出现时，人们拥有黑白电视一样。他们最终决定这项新技术是否值得投资。
I think that if there's some innovative entrepreneurs out there who can help teach people how they can cost-effectively help themselves and their planet, I think everybody would be for it. That's going to be the challenge - figuring a way to get the marketplace and commerce to teach us consumers another way.
我认为，如果有一些具有创新精神的企业家能够帮助人们以更低的成本有效地帮助他们自己和他们的星球，我想每个人都会赞成。这将是一个挑战——想办法让市场和商业教会我们消费者另一种方式。
This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.
这就是客户付钱给我们的——为所有这些细节费心，让他们轻松愉快地使用我们的电脑。我们应该很擅长这个。这并不意味着我们不听取客户的意见，但当他们从未见过类似的东西时，他们很难告诉你他们想要什么。
The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.
让世界为家用电器做好准备的杀手级应用程序是电灯泡。所以电灯泡连接了世界。当他们连接世界的时候，他们没有想到电器。他们真的在想——他们没有给家里供电。他们正在给家里装照明设备。
Radio astronomy reflects our fascination with how audio can be used to understand information or ideas. Just as scientists visualize data through charts and pictures, we can use 'data sonification' to translate radio signals into sound that help us better understand some of our most enigmatic planetary systems.
射电天文学反映了我们对如何利用声音来理解信息或思想的着迷。就像科学家通过图表和图片将数据可视化一样，我们可以利用“数据声波化”将无线电信号转换成声音，帮助我们更好地理解一些最神秘的行星系统。
On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes: You can be big, or you can be small. It's very hard to be medium. A lot of medium-sized companies had the financing rug pulled out from under them before they could get big.
在互联网上，企业是规模企业，固定成本高，可变成本相对较低。你可以是两种尺寸:你可以是大的，也可以是小的。很难做到中等水平。许多中型公司在发展壮大之前就已经摆脱了融资困境。
The bottom line is how do we best provide for the security of the traveling public in light of a determined enemy who is adept at constructing well-designed, well-concealed devices which would not show up in a walk-through metal detector? We're trying to employ the best technology to identify any possible threat.
问题的关键是，我们如何才能最好地为旅行中的公众提供安全保障，因为我们的敌人意志坚定，擅长制造精心设计、隐藏良好的设备，而这些设备不会出现在步行通过的金属探测器中?我们正试图使用最好的技术来识别任何可能的威胁。
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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。
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?
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?
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。
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。