A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
科技
Technology
We are a communicating nation which needs access to space, access to the seas.
我们是一个需要沟通的国家，需要进入太空，进入海洋。
With the Internet, we can choose the very communities we want to be a part of.
有了互联网，我们可以选择我们想要加入的社区。
The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.
原子变得像一只飞蛾，寻找激光强度更高的区域。
We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives.
我们被许诺过一种更简单的生活，而科技只会让我们的生活变得更复杂。
I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting.
我也在互联网上关注国际象棋，卡斯帕罗夫的网站非常有趣。
There is no point in launching technology before customers are ready to use it.
在客户准备好使用技术之前，发布技术是没有意义的。
Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
毫无疑问，机器极大地增加了富裕闲人的数量。
We need to get used to seeing humans with antennas sticking out of their heads.
我们需要习惯看到人类头上伸出天线。
Whenever something is engineered as complex, it is designed to keep you simple.
无论什么时候设计的东西很复杂，它都是为了让你保持简单。
All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?
所有的电视都是教育电视。问题是:它教什么?
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
我们的一生可能是在技术社会中度过的最后一生。
Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film.
极地快车并不是要做动画。这是一部技术片。
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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?
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 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。
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。
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。
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。