A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
科技
Technology
The most important thing about technology is that it can seamlessly work its way into your routine and your life.
科技最重要的一点是，它可以无缝地融入你的日常生活和生活。
Certainly the advent of technology and electronic commerce has had an immense impact on the real estate industry.
当然，技术和电子商务的出现对房地产行业产生了巨大的影响。
If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
如果我们继续在没有智慧和审慎的情况下发展我们的技术，我们的仆人可能会被证明是我们的刽子手。
The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.
生物医学进步的好处是明显的、明确的和强大的。人们对这些危险的认识要低得多。
I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.
我不相信天意和命运，作为一个技术专家，我习惯于用概率的公式来计算。
For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
因为部落人类的空间是一个无法控制的谜。对于技术人员来说，时间扮演着同样的角色。
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
发明家:把轮子、杠杆和弹簧巧妙地组合起来，并相信这是文明的人。
It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.
设计一个真正的公文包会很好——你打开它，它是你的电脑，但它也能存储你的书。
Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.
工程师喜欢解决问题。如果没有现成的问题，他们就会制造自己的问题。
I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.
我一向讨厌机器，而我唯一能理解的机器就是独轮手推车，这一点我不太了解。
I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute.
我想很多人会继续走向粗心的计算，因为每分钟都有一个傻瓜诞生。
I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.
我一直对科学很感兴趣，我知道对我来说，科学是比网球更好的长期职业。
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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。
Wouldn't it be great if the technology we used to take care of ourselves was as good as the technology we use to make money?
如果我们用来照顾自己的技术和我们用来赚钱的技术一样好，那不是很棒吗?
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。
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。
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?
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。