A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
科技
Technology
I am constantly amazed by how much stranger science is than science fiction.
我经常惊讶于科学比科幻小说更奇怪。
I don't believe in e-mail. I rarely use a cell phone and I don't have a fax.
我不相信电子邮件。我很少用手机，也没有传真。
If it hadn't been for the videocassette, I may not have had a career at all.
如果没有盒式录像带，我可能根本就没有事业。
The little dance your thumbs do when you aren't sure how to reply to a text.
当你不确定如何回复一条短信时，你的拇指会跳舞。
Parents have the ability to screen their children's Internet access at home.
父母有能力在家里屏蔽孩子的互联网接入。
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
真正认真对待软件的人应该自己制作硬件。
I don't know what I would do without my smartphone as I am on the go all day.
我不知道没有我的智能手机我会做什么，因为我整天都在忙。
The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive.
吉他是一种比电脑效率高得多的机器。更多的响应。
Dear motorist on the information superhighway. I'm sorry I do not have a car.
亲爱的信息高速公路上的司机们。对不起，我没有车。
Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.
最近我一直在努力说服自己一切都是计算。
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
只有当它们出错时，机器才会提醒你它们是多么强大。
Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.
科学充其量是一种开放的探究方法，而不是一种信仰体系。
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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。
Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.
人类的每一项发明、每一件工具、每一件仪器、每一件器物、每一种为使用而设计的物品，都是从非常简单的开始发展起来的。
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。
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。