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科技
Technology
I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.
我仍然觉得很难理解，有人会说，你不能让机器表现出意识。
All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life and degraded human life into material force.
我们所有的发明都赋予了物质力量以智力生命，并将人类的生命降级为物质力量。
I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.
我认为复杂性主要是一种糟糕的东西，因为改变界面太贵了。
I am against electronic books. they make real books obsolete, denying the poor and economically challenged freedom.
我反对电子书。他们使真正的书籍过时，剥夺穷人和经济上受到挑战的自由。
The interesting thing about the Internet is that it has created a kind of alternative circle of friends for people.
互联网的有趣之处在于，它为人们创造了一种另类的朋友圈。
When I'm off the clock, I usually play video games - or do something nature-y so I can contribute to Mother Nature.
当我下班的时候，我通常玩电子游戏，或者做一些自然的事情，这样我就可以为大自然做些贡献。
Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired.
在分子水平上了解生物系统化学的科学家很少能避免受到启发。
We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.
我们可能没有足够的智慧去做一些人们正在谈论的工程方面的事情。
Stop relying only on technology.Technology can help the qualified, well-trained human being but cannot replace him.
不要只依赖技术。技术可以帮助合格的、训练有素的人，但不能取代他。
What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work.
我们所能做的永远不应该决定我们选择做什么，然而这是技术趋向于工作的方式。
The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless.
一个成熟程序员的标志是，当你意识到你花时间编写的代码毫无意义时，你愿意扔掉这些代码。
One ought to acknowledge the significance for mankind of the simultaneous invention of gunpowder and printer’s ink.
人们应该承认同时发明火药和印刷油墨对人类的意义。
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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。
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 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。
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 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。