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"Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
- Alan Kay
“不要担心其他人会怎么做。 预测未来的最好方法就是创造未来。”
- 艾伦 · 凯
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"But the audience is right. They're always, always right. You hear directors complain that the advertising was lousy, the distribution is no good, the date was wrong to open the film. I don't believe that. The audience is never wrong. Never."
- William Friedkin, in a NYT interview
“但是观众是对的。 他们永远，永远是对的。 你听导演们抱怨广告太差劲，发行不好，开片日期不对。 我不相信。 观众从来不会错。 从来不会。”
- 威廉·弗莱德金在纽约时报的采访中说
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"Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve."
- Alan Perlis
“对待失败很容易: 努力工作，不断提高。 对待成功也很容易: 解决掉错误问题。 努力工作，不断提高。 ”
- 艾伦 · 佩里斯
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"Frankly, I don't think you could have driven a needle up my sphincter using a sledgehammer."
- Col. Barry Horne, F-117 pilot, on first mission over Baghdad
“老实说，我觉得你不可能用大锤把针刺进我的括约肌。”
- 巴里 · 霍恩上校，F-117飞行员，在巴格达上空执行首次任务
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"Two centuries later a most clear-sighted historian of the Second Crusade can find space in a short narrative to record on many occasions the flattery, perjury, perfidy, blasphemy, heresy, arrogance, servility, deceit, pride, cunning and infidelity of the Greeks."
- R. W. Southern, The Making of the Middle Ages
“两个世纪后，第二次十字军东征最有远见的历史学家可以在一个简短的叙述中找到空间，在许多场合记录下希腊人的阿谀奉承、伪证、背信弃义、亵渎神明、异端邪说、傲慢自大、奴性、欺骗、骄傲、狡诈和不忠。”
- R. W. Southern 《中世纪的形成》
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"The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man."
- Richard Feynman
“大自然的想象力远比人类的想象力要更加伟大。”
- 理查德 费曼
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"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."
- Brandeis
“自由最大的危险潜伏在热情、善意但缺乏理解的人们的隐伏侵蚀中。”
- 布兰代斯
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"People who read Cosmopolitan magazine are very different from those who do not."
- Donald Berry, Statistics: A Bayesian Perspective
“读《时尚》杂志的人与不读的人有很大的区别。”
- 唐纳德 · 贝里，《统计学: 贝叶斯观点》
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"The art of handling university students is to make oneself appear, and this almost ostentatiously, to be treating them as adults...."
- Arnold Toynbee, Experiences
“对待大学生的艺术就是显得，这几乎是在炫耀，你在对待一个成年人……”
- 阿诺德 · 汤因比，《经历》
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"Americans spend an average of four hours a day watching TV, an hour of that enduring ads. That adds up to an astounding 10% of total leisure time; at current rates, a typical viewer fritters away three years of his life getting bombarded with commercials."
- Scott Woolley, Forbes
“美国人平均每天花四个小时看电视，其中一个小时是持续的广告。 以目前的速度，一个看电视的人一生中有三年时间被广告狂轰滥炸。”
- 斯科特 · 伍利，福布斯
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