The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

  • -- Arthur C. Clarke 亚瑟·C·克拉克

衡量一个人是否诚实的最好标准不是他的所得税申报表。这是他浴室磅秤上的零点调整。

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The best way to conduct research on a larger scale is to make sure everyone knows what everyone else is doing... The sooner the better - start talking to other people about what you're doing. Because that's what will stimulate things the fastest.

进行大规模研究的最好方法是确保每个人都知道其他人在做什么……越快越好——开始和别人谈论你正在做的事情。因为这是最快的刺激。

I went from sort of trying to get work to all of a sudden being signed up for the next few years on something, and something of this scale with some of the best people in the business involved, acting and directing. It was a dream.

我从试着去找工作,突然间在接下来的几年里,我和一些业内最优秀的人,包括演员和导演,签订了某种规模的合同。那是个梦。

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

我们不能设想物质是无中生有的,因为事物需要一粒种子从……因此,没有什么东西会归于虚无,而是所有的东西都回归到它们的元素中去了。

We are entering an era of heightened disaster, thanks to climate change. Being prepared for disaster will mean being prepared to sift truth from rumour, and being prepared to adjust our worldview.

由于气候变化,我们正进入一个灾难加剧的时代。准备好面对灾难意味着准备好从谣言中筛选出真相,准备好调整我们的世界观。

What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de force, and I think it got across what I was trying for.

我希望人们记住哪五本书?嗯…零,我特别喜欢这个。这在某种程度上是一种绝技,我认为它传达了我想要表达的东西。

My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game.

我的指导原则是共享繁荣。我们可以一起创造财富。全球经济不是零和游戏。

On fame: It all happened so fast. I'd wake up in the night and go, 'I can't believe it. I've gotta go to the bathroom!

关于名气:这一切发生得太快了。我会在夜里醒来,然后说,‘我不敢相信。我要上厕所了!

It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.

这发生在他们当中最好的人身上。你停止唱歌,嗓子也不练了。没有借口。我搞砸了。

In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.

在一所有小孩子的房子里,浴室很快就呈现出老古玩店的样子。

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

犯罪和不良生活是一个国家失败的衡量标准,一切犯罪归根到底都是社会的犯罪。

You can’t look at someone with your eyes and take their measure. You have to look with the heart.

你不能用你的眼睛看着别人,然后衡量他们。你必须用心去看。

I hoped that the trip would be the best of all journeys: a journey into ourselves.

我希望这次旅行将是所有旅行中最好的一次:一次深入自我的旅行。

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

聪明的人有时被迫喝醉酒,以便和他的傻瓜们呆在一起。

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.

头脑有时应该转移一下,以便能回到更好的思考中去。

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

一个人的思想习惯告诉他的比七个坐在塔里的看守人还要多。

These days an income is something you can't live without - or within.

如今,收入是一种你不能没有的东西——或者是你不能拥有的东西。

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

没有什么比微薄但足够的收入更令人沮丧的了。

That's the biggest problem, is the tax code itself.

最大的问题在于税法本身。

I come from Cuba. Taxes for me are no big thing.

我来自古巴。税收对我来说不是什么大事。