A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
科技
Technology
The focus of our agenda for this meeting is on energy, and on how we can make better use of technology to make the transition to a low-carbon economy.
我们这次会议的议程重点是能源，以及如何更好地利用技术，向低碳经济过渡。
New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else.
新技术是有用的，但它的效率低下和丑陋;它知道明天午餐时间它就会过时，所以它没有动力去做其他事情。
With the help of modern technology, I can compose intricate keyboard parts and then I have to go back and learn them in order to perform them properly.
在现代科技的帮助下，我可以组成复杂的键盘部件，然后我必须回去学习它们，以正确地执行它们。
I think it's the tragedy of our time that we're not aware of the affect of the manner in which we've adopted tools. Those tools have become who we are.
我认为这是我们这个时代的悲剧，我们没有意识到我们使用工具的方式的影响。这些工具造就了我们。
At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pursue my interest in television and particularly in science.
目前，我正在皇家歌剧院享受一个新的挑战，但我也热衷于追求我对电视的兴趣，尤其是对科学的兴趣。
The science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis has matured tremendously in the last couple of years.
在过去的几年里，将极端天气的频繁增加和严重程度与气候危机联系起来的科学已经非常成熟。
And, I think that is actually appropriate because I'm really not the world's best programmer, I think it's a good thing that I'm not touching the code.
我觉得这很合适，因为我不是世界上最好的程序员，我觉得我不碰代码是件好事。
The frontier orbital approach was further developed in various directions by my own group and many other scientists, both theoretical and experimental.
前沿轨道方法是由我自己的小组和许多其他科学家在理论和实验上从不同的方向进一步发展起来的。
But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy opened up.
但是当贝尔实验室的研究人员发现静电往往来自天空中的特定位置时，射电天文学的整个领域就打开了。
Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before.
在过去的几年里，随着科技的发展，世界变得比以往任何时候都更小、更一体化。
So evidently music was a killer app and is a killer app for computer and the Internet; it just took the tech industry a long time to hear that message.
显然，音乐是一个杀手级的应用程序，是电脑和互联网的杀手级应用程序;科技行业花了很长时间才明白这一点。
Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened.
如果没有竞争，我们在过去一百年中看到的技术的惊人发展就不会发生。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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?
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。
Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.
技术给了我们力量，但它没有也不能告诉我们如何使用这种力量。多亏了科技，我们可以在世界各地即时交流，但它仍然不能帮助我们知道该说什么。
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。
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。
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。