A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
科技
Technology
I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen.
我认为那些被吸引到网上工作的艺术家们会调整他们的作品以适应一个非常小的屏幕。
Increasingly, consumers don't search for products and services. Rather, services come to their attention via social media.
越来越多的消费者不再搜索产品和服务。相反,服务是通过社交媒体引起他们的注意的。
Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.
互联网迟早会盈利。这是一个古老的故事在运河,铁路和汽车。
As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it's been a huge promotional tool for me.
尽管人们抱怨互联网抢走了艺术家的销售,但对我来说,这是一个巨大的宣传工具。
I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community.
我是一个未来。技术是我们解决几乎所有问题的方法。技术可以创造一种新的社区意识。
We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?'
我们必须让机器明白它们在做什么,否则它们就不能回来说,‘你为什么要那样做?’
I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.
我有一台电视机和一台打字机,这让我觉得电脑应该像带视频屏幕的打字机一样摆放。
Businesses should be assured that law enforcement will operate with the utmost sensitivity toward victims of cyber attacks.
企业应该得到保证,执法部门将以最大的敏感性对待网络攻击的受害者。
I think music will be created algorhythmically, all the things that we do will be boiled down to a little computer program.
我认为音乐将会以数学的方式被创造出来,我们所做的一切将会被浓缩成一个小小的电脑程序。
I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.
我很幸运能够参与其中并为一些重要的事情做出贡献,那就是用软件增强人们的能力。
I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate.
我认为高速数据传输是一项发明,是一项重大的创新。它改变了我们所有人沟通的方式。
Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.
亚马逊努力成为电子商务的目的地,在那里消费者可以找到和发现他们想在网上购买的任何东西。
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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。
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?
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。
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。
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。
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。