A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
科技
Technology
The stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
这些恒星是巨大的聚变反应堆。它们是天空中巨大的核坩埚。
Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it.
物理学家们正在研究宇宙大爆炸，也许有一天他们能解决它，也许不能。
I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.
我一直想拥有和控制我们所做的每件事的主要技术。
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。
We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality.
我们生活在一个同时痴迷于技术和个性的媒体世界。
Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances.
协同作用和机缘巧合常常在医学和科学进步中发挥重要作用。
The theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as the theory.
我们的现代技术理论表明，没有什么比理论更实用。
Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept.
在技术被创造出来之后，社会将决定我们接受什么，不接受什么。
Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.
科学将把我们从大城市的枷锁中解放出来，把我们带回大自然。
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
每个人每天都得到那么多的信息，以至于他们失去了常识。
So many people are are using the Internet now to watch movies and TV shows online.
现在很多人都在使用互联网在线看电影和电视节目。
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
如果说科幻小说是现代科技的神话，那么它的神话就是悲剧。
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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。
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?
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 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。
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。