We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

  • -- Alexis de Tocqueville 托克维尔

我们成功的企业,需要我们所拥有的积极的品质,但我们在那些也可以利用我们的缺点。

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However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions.

然而,编写没有缺陷的软件是不够的。根据我的经验,编写安全的软件至少和编写在不利条件下行为合理的软件一样困难。

The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals.

白人的血和骨头孕育了这个青铜种族,并在某种程度上给它留下了品质、倾向和能力,比如人类动物最高等级的遗传。

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

在我看来,艺术作品是物质世界中唯一具有内在秩序的对象,这就是为什么,虽然我不认为只有艺术才重要,但我相信艺术是为了艺术而艺术。

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

每一个艺术家的目标都是通过人为的手段来捕捉运动,也就是生命,并把它固定住,这样一百年后,当一个陌生人看到它时,它又动了起来,因为这就是生命。

The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities.

新的生产性企业浪潮将提供机会,纠正经济阶层和种族和族裔社区之间环境危害的不公正分配。

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

现代艺术史也是一部艺术受众逐步流失的历史。艺术越来越受到艺术家的关注和公众的困惑。

It is impossible for our working people to maintain their full strength if they do not succeed in obtaining a sufficient supply of fat, allotted to them on a proper basis.

我们的劳动人民,如果不能获得分配给他们的适当的脂肪供应,就不可能保持他们的全部力量。

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

如果一个人能用他的技巧和建设性的想象力去发现他能为一美元付出多少,而不是他能为一美元付出多少,他一定会成功。

It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world.

不可否认,这种要求相当武断地限制了作为现实世界中所发生事件的可能原因而被承认的事实。

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

一幅画必须具有产生光的真正力量,很长一段时间以来,我一直有意识地通过光,或者说在光中表达自己。

If a currency is to become a growing, an increasing reserve currency, there has to be not only a demand for it there has to be a supply of it.

如果一种货币要成为一种不断增长的储备货币,不仅要有对它的需求,还要有它的供给。

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

我们所有人都未能实现完美的梦想。因此,我对我们的评价是基于我们出色地完成了不可能完成的任务。

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

美德超群的人最有权利造反,但他们是所有人中最不愿意造反的。

Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.

使用化妆台,把所有的东西都放在手边,不要匆忙;否则你看起来就像一床拼布被子。

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

这种行为是不合理的,要么乞求祝福,要么成功了却没有感恩。

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

狡猾是一种隐藏自己缺点,发现别人缺点的艺术。

A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind.

一个人通常具有他认为属于人类的好的或坏的品质。

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

一个人的朋友是人类可以成为人类的一部分。

Leadership is one of the things I really strive to excel in in my life.

领导力是我在生活中真正想要超越的东西之一。

A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.

旁观者往往比旁观者更能判断比赛的结果。

First off, I'm not a scientist, and I make no apology for that.

首先,我不是科学家,对此我不道歉。

It's not enough to have talent, you also have to be Hungarian.

光有天赋是不够的,你还必须是匈牙利人。

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

没有怨恨思想的人一定会找到安宁。

I realize I'm not a machine. I'm going to make mistakes.

我意识到我不是机器。我会犯错。