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科技
Technology
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
信息是现代的氧气。它穿过布满铁丝网的墙，飘过带电的边界。
Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.
每一种新媒介都在改变人类思维的本质。从长远来看，历史就是信息自我意识的过程。
The Internet is a game changer. I'm hopeful I can make a contribution by providing a way to learn about the game of golf free of charge.
互联网改变了游戏规则。我希望我可以通过提供一个免费学习高尔夫球的方法来做出贡献。
But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.
但科学的力量在于公开出版，随着互联网的兴起，公开出版不再受纸张价格的限制。
Just as war is too important to leave it to the generals, science and technology are too important to leave in the hands of the experts.
正如战争太重要而不能留给将军，科学和技术太重要而不能留给专家。
The movie industry is committed to working with the technology sector to find innovative new ways to deliver entertainment to consumers.
电影行业致力于与科技行业合作，寻找创新的方式向消费者提供娱乐。
We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.
我们可以缩小差距，改善课堂上发生的事情，通过使用在任何地方都一样高质量的教育技术。
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
我们生活在一个高度依赖科学技术的社会，在这个社会里几乎没有人了解科学技术。
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
软件就像熵。它难以掌握，重量为零，遵循热力学第二定律;也就是说，它总是在增加。
People would like better batteries but they are wary of making investments. What is required is both a technology push and a market pull.
人们想要更好的电池，但他们对投资持谨慎态度。我们需要的是技术推动和市场拉动。
If more women want to be a part of the computer industry today, they have to do more to put themselves there. Nobody is keeping them out.
如果今天有更多的女性想要成为计算机行业的一份子，她们必须做更多的事情来实现自己的目标。没有人把他们挡在外面。
Sometimes it seems that the fate of the world is decided entirely in the ether of electronic communications and corporate backroom deals.
有时，世界的命运似乎完全由电子通信和企业幕后交易的以太决定。
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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。
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。
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。
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 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。