It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

  • -- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊

即使一个罪犯没有法律形式的惩罚也比他逃跑更危险。

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The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past.

未来太过有趣和危险,不能委托给任何可预测、可靠的机构。我们需要尽可能多的犯错。最重要的是,我们需要保持我们相互联系的思想的绝对不可预测性和完全不可能性。这样我们就可以像过去一样,保留所有的选择。

You can't escape this feeling of disintegration. The world is fragile. But you also can't let it ruin your life. I'm actually a pretty composed person. I guess people imagine I spend my life thinking about crazy, sinister things but I don't, really. It's not like I'm trying to exorcise any demons.

你无法逃避这种解体的感觉。世界是脆弱的。但你也不能让它毁了你的生活。我其实是个很沉稳的人。我猜人们会以为我一生都在想一些疯狂、邪恶的事情,但实际上我并没有。我又不是想驱魔。

Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist... why would you want to?

深刻的真理一旦被发现,就不可能“不被发现”。没有“回到”过去的你。即使这种可能性确实存在……你为什么要这么做?

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.

任何人都没有侵犯他人平等权利的自然权利,这就是法律应该约束他的一切。

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

知道如何阅读是件好事,但知道如何阅读而不是如何解读你所读的内容是很危险的。

I could easily escape to a hotel for a weekend and do absolutely nothing.

我可以很容易地逃到酒店度周末,什么也不做。

I went to law school. I found it interesting for the first three weeks.

我上的是法学院。我发现前三周很有趣。

I want to resume the life of a shy person.

我想重新开始一个害羞的人的生活。