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科技
Technology
I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.
我没有想到我的后半生会花在努力避免科学对人类造成的致命危险上。
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
我认为人们的编程能力差是不可避免的。培训对事情没有实质性的帮助。我们必须学会接受它。
My focus is not on solving nature's deeper mysteries. It is on using nature's deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems.
我的重点不是解决大自然更深层次的奥秘。它是关于利用大自然更深层次的奥秘来解决重要的社会问题。
We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.
我们不需要成为神学家就能看到，我们已经把让世界变得有趣的责任从上帝转移到了新闻工作者身上。
It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.
对于企业来说，一开始上网不一定总是有利可图的，但不上网肯定是无利可图的。
There is an enormous market demand for information. It just has to be fulfilled in a way that fits with the technology of our times.
市场对信息有巨大的需求。它只需要以一种符合我们时代技术的方式来实现。
I love making music, I love composing on my computer, just making crazy ethnic slack orchestral tracks, that's one of my fun things.
我喜欢做音乐，我喜欢在我的电脑上作曲，只是做一些疯狂的民族松散的管弦乐曲目，这是我的乐趣之一。
Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies.
如今的股市实际上讨厌科技股，主要上市科技公司的市盈率处于历史低位就说明了这一点。
I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.
我从来没有遇到过一种技术是一成不变的。这是不可避免的。随着技术的发展，你必须调整你的系统。
There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
有很多音乐听起来像是电脑合成的，完全脱离了一个坐在乐器前的人。
A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess.
硅谷文化的一个显著特点是，它的地位结构是如此基于技术成就和实力。
I've always really been into science, and in the last five years I've gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.
我一直对科学很感兴趣，在过去的五年里，我研究了理论物理学和宇宙的起源。
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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 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。
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。
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。
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 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。