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Technology
I like to think that the Internet and file sharing, if utilized properly and embraced, and I emphasize properly, is a high-powered marketing design.
我倾向于认为，互联网和文件共享，如果得到恰当的利用和接纳，我强调，是一个强有力的营销设计。
Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present.
甚至一些最伟大的技术革命，或者所谓的技术革命，也只是因为已经存在的趋势才成为可能。
In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.
在信息时代，你不能像封建主义之后那样教授哲学。你执行它。如果亚里士多德今天还活着，他会有一个脱口秀节目。
I live on the other side of Copernicus and Galileo; I can no longer conceive of God as sort of above the sky, looking down and keeping record books.
我生活在哥白尼和伽利略的另一边;我不能再把上帝想象成高高在上，俯视着天空，记录着历史。
We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us.
我们的生活中有了比以往更多的媒体和技术。它应该帮助我们沟通，但它有相反的效果，孤立我们。
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
难道软件不像其他东西吗?难道软件就是要被抛弃的吗?难道软件就是要永远把它看作一个肥皂泡吗?
We know that, when it comes to technology and the economy, if you're not constantly moving forward, then - without a doubt - you're moving backwards.
我们知道，当涉及到技术和经济的时候，如果你没有不断地前进，那么毫无疑问，你就是在倒退。
You can send a message around the world in one fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.
你可以用五分之一秒的时间向全世界发送一条信息，但是从一个人的大脑外部到内部可能需要很多年的时间。
The Internet has changed everything. We expect to know everything instantly. If you don't understand digital communication, you're at a disadvantage.
互联网改变了一切。我们希望立即知道一切。如果你不懂数字通信，你就处于劣势。
To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.
要把真正有趣的想法和刚刚起步的技术转变成一家能够持续创新多年的公司，需要很多学科。
The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.
通讯的速度令人惊叹。速度可以使我们知道不真实的信息的分布成倍增加，这也是事实。
Geologists don't do that! We go out in the field and observe, and then we can try to make a model with computerization; but it's not the first thing.
地质学家不这样做!我们到野外去观察，然后我们可以尝试用计算机化制作一个模型;但这不是第一件事。
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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。
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。
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?
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。
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。