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科技
Technology
E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone, as far as I'm concerned. I would throw my phone away if I could get away with it.
就我而言，电子邮件比电话方便得多。如果我能侥幸逃脱，我就把手机扔掉。
The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.
当我说到发明互联网的那一天，我很累，因为我整夜都在发明摄像机。
In my opinion, right now there's way too much hype on the technologies and not enough attention to the real businesses behind them.
在我看来，现在对这些技术有太多的炒作，而对它们背后的真正业务没有足够的关注。
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。
We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.
我们手机太多了。我们有太多的互联网。我们必须把那些机器处理掉。我们现在的机器太多了。
It's so exciting to be doing radio on the cutting edge of technology. Being in on something new is the biggest thrill in the world.
在科技前沿做广播真是太令人兴奋了。世界上最激动人心的事莫过于发现新事物。
It's the age of information and we need to just get as informed as we can about what other things might help us live healthy lives.
这是一个信息时代，我们需要尽可能多地了解其他可能帮助我们健康生活的事情。
Future is mobile computing - smartphones and tablets are just elements of it. The industry is on the verge of a whole new paradigm.
未来是移动计算——智能手机和平板电脑只是其中的一部分。该行业正处于一种全新模式的边缘。
Not as ours the books of old - Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore - Rows of type, and nothing more.
不像我们的旧书——蒸汽可以压印和折叠的东西;不像我们的旧书——一排排的铅字，仅此而已。
Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
由于量子不确定性，即海森堡不确定性原理，量子力学给物理学带来了意想不到的模糊性。
But the great thing, and the horrible thing about the web is you can just throw stuff up there and it doesn't cost anybody anything.
但最棒的，也是最可怕的是，你可以把东西扔到网上，而且不花任何人一分钱。
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
原子释放出来的能量改变了一切，除了我们的思维方式，因此我们走向了空前的灾难。
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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?
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?
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。
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。
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。
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。