A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
科技
Technology
I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly.
我认为电子游戏是一种很好的娱乐方式。它们取代了人们通常与朋友和邻居一起玩的许多游戏，比如大富翁。
Saudi Arabia has also changed. People today are connecting with each other all across the world through small gadgets and television. It's a different society.
沙特阿拉伯也发生了变化。今天，世界各地的人们通过小玩意和电视相互联系。这是一个不同的社会。
We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space.
我们必须始终强调科学和数学的研究和发展，我想不出比通过我们在太空的未来更好的方法来实现这一点。
The Internet provides the access to resources, so it's incumbent upon the people who control those resources to make sure that the economic engine stays intact.
互联网提供了获取资源的途径，因此控制这些资源的人有责任确保经济引擎完好无损。
We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.
我们将建造新的飞船载着人类进入宇宙，在月球上获得新的立足点，并为去我们自己之外的世界的新旅程做好准备。
I'm thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn't still be here if it weren't for them.
我感谢在我的一生中，医学取得了令人难以置信的进步。如果没有他们，我几乎肯定不会在这里。
If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost.
如果我们让自己对科技的沾沾自喜的崇拜分散了我们与他人的联系，那么最初的议程不知何故就失去了。
We also had to bring with us some desired scientific equipment over to the station as well as assemble new machines. For that, I had to conduct two space walks.
我们还必须带一些我们想要的科学设备到空间站，并装配新机器。为此，我不得不进行两次太空行走。
People assume that computers will do everything that humans do. Not good. People are different from each other and they are all really different from computers.
人们认为计算机会做人类所做的一切。不好的。人与人之间是不同的，他们都是真的不同于电脑。
My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.
亲爱的荣耀小姐，机器人不是人。他们在机械上比我们更完美，他们有惊人的智力，但他们没有灵魂。
In this metaphor we actually have a picture of the computational universe, a metaphor which I hope to make scientifically precise as part of a research program.
在这个比喻中，我们实际上有一幅计算宇宙的图画，我希望这个比喻在科学上是精确的，作为一个研究项目的一部分。
Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources; many of them have computers at home, for instance, or their friends have them.
孩子们正在从其他渠道了解在线探索的潜力;例如，他们中的许多人家里有电脑，或者他们的朋友有电脑。
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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 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 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?
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。
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。