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Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.
也许对技术进步的关注已经盖过了我们对人类进步的关注。
Mobile entertainment is a huge opportunity. We are committed to mobile just as much as we are to PCs.
移动娱乐是一个巨大的机遇。我们致力于移动设备,就像我们致力于个人电脑一样。
Our approach to making games is to find the fun first and then use the technology to enhance the fun.
我们制作游戏的方法是先找到乐趣,然后使用技术来增强乐趣。
It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.
它是随着每一项新技术而变化的框架,而不仅仅是框架内的图片。
There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.
从火到飞,没有一项伟大的发明不被当作是对上帝的侮辱而受到欢迎。
Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.
电脑摄影不会是我们所知道的摄影。我认为摄影永远是化学的。
Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.
孩子们甚至不再看漫画书了。他们有更重要的事情要做——比如电子游戏。
The pace of technological change in recent years has been both impressive and positive for consumers.
近年来,技术变革的步伐令人印象深刻,对消费者来说也是积极的。
Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.
一旦汽车出现,你就可以预测它会像它所做的那样摧毁那么多的人。
I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere.
我认为谷歌应该像一把瑞士军刀:干净、简单,你想带着它去任何地方。
Of course, screening for HIV did essentially eliminate the transmission of this virus by transfusions.
当然,艾滋病毒筛查确实从根本上消除了这种病毒的输血传播。
People say, ‘Oh, why do you insist on ruining the magic? You bring in science, and it ruins the magic.
人们说,‘哦,你为什么坚持要破坏魔法?你带来了科学,却破坏了魔法。
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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。
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 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。
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。