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"The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act."
- Tara Ploughman
“越不自信，越是要认真行动。”
- 塔拉·普劳曼
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"The condition of man is already close to satiety and arrogance, and there is danger of destruction of everything in existence."
- a Brahmin to Onesicritus, 327 BC, reported in Strabo's Geography
“人类的处境已很接近饱足和傲慢， 存在着毁灭一切的危险。”
- 公元前327年，在斯特拉波的《地理学》中记载了一个婆罗门对阿尼西克里图斯的说法
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"Change breaks the brittle."
- Jan Houtema
“改变会打破脆弱。”
- 简·侯特玛
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The sons of Hermes love to play,
And only do their best when they
Are told they oughtn't;
Apollo's children never shrink
From boring jobs but have to think
Their work important.
- W. H. Auden, Under Which Lyre
“赫耳墨斯的儿子们喜欢玩耍,
并且只有当他们
被告知他们不应该这样;
阿波罗的孩子们从不畏缩
从无聊的工作中解脱出来，但必须思考
他们的工作很重要。”
- W.H.奥登 何方竖琴下
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"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."
- Abelson & Sussman, SICP, preface to the first edition
“程序是写给人看的，偶尔才交给机器去执行而已。”
- 阿贝尔森和萨斯曼，《计算机程序的构造和解释》第一版序言
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"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
“语言是人类理性的工具，而不仅仅是表达思想的媒介，这是公认的真理。”
- 乔治布尔，引用于艾弗森图灵奖讲座
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"Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all."
- Winston Churchill
“简洁的词语是最好的，而简洁的旧词是好中之好。”
- 温斯顿丘吉尔
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"Many big people were chasing me. I didn't know what to do. So I thought I would surprise them and throw it."
- Garo Yepremian, Miami placekicker, after a disastrous attempt to throw a pass in the Super Bowl.
“很多大人物都在盯着我，我不知道该怎么办，所以我想给他们一个惊喜，然后把球扔了出去。”
- Garo Yepremian，迈阿密踢球手，在超级碗中尝试一次灾难性的传球之后。
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"That book is good in vain which the reader throws away. He only is the master who keeps the mind in pleasing captivity; whose pages are perused with eagerness, and in hope of new pleasure are perused again; and whose conclusion is perceived with an eye of sorrow, such as the traveller casts upon departing day."
- Johnson, Lives of the Poets: Dryden
那本读者扔掉的书是徒劳的。 只有他才能使心灵保持愉快的囚禁状态; 他的书页被热切地阅读，希望能再次获得新的快乐; 他的结论被用悲伤的眼光看待，就像旅行者在离去的日子里所看到的那样。
- 约翰逊，《诗人的生活: 德莱顿》
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