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科技
Technology
Once an artist explores the vast variety of tools and features available on the great programs, we're hooked.
一旦一个艺术家探索了各种各样的工具和功能，我们就被吸引住了。
Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.
最重要的是，我不指望一个聪明的种族会不惜巨大代价，释放出一支自我复制的机器人大军。
Apple does great products, but at the end of the day we think consumers want choice, consumers want openness.
苹果的产品很棒，但归根结底，我们认为消费者需要选择，消费者需要开放。
I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.
我基本上编写了客户端和服务器之间如何通信的代码、规范和文档。
Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.
技术改变了图书出版的工作方式，正如它改变了媒体世界的一切一样。
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
值得怀疑的是，是否所有的机械发明都减轻了人们一天的劳动。
Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
现在大多数人通过互联网发送他们的东西。但我不能那样工作。我喜欢自己做。
I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.
我的意思是，通过基因改造，我们与植物世界的关系正在发生巨大的变化。
At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
随着知识的每一次增长，以及每一种新工具的发明，人类的劳动就会减少。
Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
能量是物理学家创造的一个概念。任何地方都不存在可观测到的能量。
Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.
就像我们可以骑马进入日落，随着互联网的出现，它的重要性增加了三倍的个人电脑。
I'm a tech geek. Whenever I read about something new, I think to myself, How can I take this and make it black?
我是个技术狂人。每当我读到新的东西，我就会想，我怎么才能把它变成黑色呢?
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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 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。
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 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。