A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
科技
Technology
Google is a global Rorschach test. We see in it what we want to see. Google has built an infrastructure that makes a lot of dreams closer to reality.
谷歌是一个全球性的罗夏墨迹测验。我们在其中看到了我们想看到的。谷歌已经建立了一个基础设施，使许多梦想更接近现实。
If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.
如果你看看应对新技术的各种策略，把头埋在沙子里并不是最合理的策略。
We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires.
我们相信电是存在的，因为电力公司一直给我们寄账单，但我们不知道它是如何在电线里传播的。
I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.
我有一个关于人类心灵的理论。大脑很像电脑。它只需要这么多的事实，然后它就会超载，爆炸。
A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.
电脑不能代替判断，就像铅笔不能代替识字一样。但是不用铅笔写作并没有什么特别的优势。
The industry's not stupid. The industry knows that if those foods are labeled "genetically engineered," the public will shy away and won't take them.
这个行业并不愚蠢。食品行业知道，如果这些食品被贴上“转基因食品”的标签，公众会避而远之，不会接受它们。
Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything?
难道你不想有一个增强记忆芯片，你可以插入你的大脑，这样你就不用查所有的东西，记住所有的东西吗?
But I think technology advertising will have to stop addressing how products are made and concentrate more on what a product will do for the consumer.
但我认为，科技广告将不得不停止关注产品是如何制作的，而是更多地关注产品将为消费者做些什么。
You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?
你在这里有财富和自由，但我没有信仰和方向。你有这么多电脑，为什么不用它们来寻找爱情呢?
The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.
机器对美德、怜悯和爱情产生了有害的影响，习惯于机器的年轻人会产生惰性和恐惧，他们几乎无能为力。
Technology enables last mile delivery. Blending it with the will and determination to deliver, Gujarat has experienced the true power of e-governance.
技术使最后一英里的交付成为可能。古吉拉特邦将其与实现这一目标的意愿和决心结合起来，体验到了电子治理的真正力量。
For over ten years or so game music has developed into a very large market.For over ten years or so game music has developed into a very large market.
十几年来，游戏音乐已经发展成为一个非常大的市场。十几年来，游戏音乐已经发展成为一个非常大的市场。
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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。
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 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。
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。
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。