A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
科技
Technology
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
一些编程语言能够吸收变化，但是能够承受进展。
It's nice to be able to communicate digitally with people around the world.
能够与世界各地的人们进行数字化交流是件好事。
When we get the final hardware, the performance is just going to skyrocket.
当我们得到最终的硬件时，性能将会突飞猛进。
The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.
信息的重要性与它的非概率成正比。
A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything.
商业的一个基本新规则是，互联网改变了一切。
How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
奇点的方法将如何传播到人类的世界观中?
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.
港口上方的天空是电视机的颜色，调到一个死气沉沉的电台。
The Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand.
互联网并不能改变一切。它不会改变供求关系。
Technology has been, and always will be, my one true passion professionally.
技术一直是，也将永远是我真正的职业激情。
Technological change is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
技术变革就像病态罪犯手中的斧头。
I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems.
我希望拥有虚拟内存，至少在它与文件系统耦合时是这样。
Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.
彩色电视!呸，除非我看到白纸黑字，否则我是不会相信的。
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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。
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。
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。
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。