A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
科技
Technology
Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.
电脑是分层的。我们有一个桌面和层次文件，这意味着一切。
The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.
战略的基本原则是持久的，不管技术或变化的速度如何。
Science, for hundreds of years, has spanned the differences between cultures and between countries.
几百年来，科学跨越了文化和国家之间的差异。
It must be able to assist in devising the method of solution of problems and not merely solve them.
它必须能够协助设计解决问题的方法，而不仅仅是解决这些问题。
One of the advantages of science is that one's work, ultimately, is either replicated or it is not.
科学的优势之一是，一个人的工作最终要么被复制，要么没有。
Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.
凡是有天文台和望远镜的地方，我们期望任何眼睛都能立刻看到新的世界。
So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us.
我预测的很多事情都是技术就在我们面前。
You get the software you pay for. In every sense. To the nth degree. That's the way the world works.
你得到了你付钱买的软件。在每一个意义。到第n阶。世界就是这样运转的。
The Internet has brought communities across the globe closer together through instant communication.
通过即时通讯，互联网使世界各地的社区更加紧密地联系在一起。
It is largely on television and radio that real probing of what politicians are up to has to happen.
真正探究政客们在做什么，主要是通过电视和广播。
Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.
科学家已经登上了月球，但我们仍然生活在荷马的道德观念中。
Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.
现代科学无法解释为什么物理定律与动物生命的存在是完全平衡的。
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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。
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 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。
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。
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。
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。