A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
科技
Technology
Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.
你的车应该自己开。我们让人类开车,这对我来说太神奇了……汽车发明于计算机之前,这是一个错误。
The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it.
能源农业的问题在于,能源并不总是在你想使用它的地方,也不总是在你想使用它的时候。
There's a lot more to see when you're playing and because of the advances in technology it makes room for all kinds of new characters.
当你在玩游戏的时候,你会看到很多东西,因为科技的进步,它为各种各样的新角色腾出了空间。
I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now.
我认为现在的电子游戏中有更多的女性角色,但我也认为这是因为现在的电子游戏总体上更加多样化。
With the Internet and social media being a huge part of today's culture, I think it's super important to promote staying smart online.
随着互联网和社交媒体成为当今文化的重要组成部分,我认为在网上保持聪明是非常重要的。
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
当前人类文明之前最大的任务是使机器成为人类的奴隶,而不是主人。
There are two great unknown forces today, electricity and woman, but men can reckon much better on electricity than they can on woman.
今天有两股巨大的未知力量,电和女人,但是男人对电的依赖比对女人的依赖要好得多。
Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature.
修修补补是我们需要知道怎么做才能让空间站这样的东西继续运行。我天生是个修补匠。
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
电话打断了最严肃的谈话,打断了最重要的观察,它有它自己的浪漫。
There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.
科技的进步和人们对科技产生的原始恐惧之间存在联系。
Our information lives will be better served when we are free to get to our information from wherever we are, with any device available.
当我们无论身在何处,都可以用任何可用的设备自由获取信息时,我们的信息生活将得到更好的服务。
When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web... Now even my cat has its own page.
当我就职时,只有高能物理学家听说过所谓的万维网……现在连我的猫都有自己的页面了。
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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。
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?
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。
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。
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。