Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time.

  • -- Simon Van Booy 西蒙·凡·布伊

语言就像喝自己在静水中的倒影。我们只能从它身上得到我们当时的样子。

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Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.

最终,我相信,目前试图用人造计算机来理解大脑的尝试将被认为是巨大的浪费时间。人造计算机可以出色地执行一些与有意识的人相同的外部任务。

I'll never stop eating animals, I'm sure, but I do think that for the benefit of everyone, the time has come to stop raising them industrially and stop eating them thoughtlessly.

我肯定,我永远不会停止吃动物,但我确实认为,为了每个人的利益,现在是停止工业化饲养动物和停止不加思索地吃动物的时候了。

I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

我个人认为,我们之所以发展语言,是因为我们内心深处需要抱怨。

Language is fossil Poetry.

语言是僵化的诗歌。