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科技
Technology
Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.
技术使大量人口成为可能;如今,人口众多使得科技不可或缺。
Science and technology are what we can do; morality is what we agree we should or should not do.
科学技术是我们所能做的;道德是我们同意我们应该或不应该做的事情。
I did what we call dry for wet effects, some of the miniatures work and two animation sequences.
我做了我们所谓的干湿效果,一些微缩模型的工作和两个动画序列。
A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'.
崩溃是指竞争对手的程序死亡。当你的程序死亡,它是一个“特质”。
Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.
任何优秀的软件工程师都会告诉你编译器和解释器是可以互换的。
When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment.
当第一台计算机开始出现时,我们试图将地震学设备数字化。
Internet company stocks in general are very volatile, and Amazon is definitely included in that.
一般来说,互联网公司的股价波动很大,亚马逊肯定也在其中。
The world is a tougher place to live in than it was back then, as we come into the computer age.
随着我们进入计算机时代,生活在这个世界上比过去更加艰难。
Even on television, the wavelengths that you use, they have to be distributed between countries.
即使在电视上,你使用的波长,也必须在国家之间分布。
Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
一些现代工程对好的艺术是必要的。但我认为自己是一个文化艺术家。
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
摄影之所以成为一项奇特的发明,是因为它的主要原料是光和时间。
As the father of six children, I know very well the challenges technology poses to our families.
作为六个孩子的父亲,我非常清楚科技给我们的家庭带来的挑战。
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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。
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。
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 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。
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。