Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times.

  • -- Rem Koolhaas 雷姆·库哈斯

每一栋建筑都必须美观、便宜、快捷,但它却经久耐用。这已经是一连串看似矛盾的要求,令人难以置信。所以,是的,我确实是一个矛盾的人,但我是在非常矛盾的时期工作的。

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A battery by definition is a collection of cells. So the cell is a little can of chemicals. And the challenge is taking a very high-energy cell, and a large number of them, and combining them safely into a large battery.

电池的定义是电池的集合。细胞是一罐化学物质。现在的挑战是把一个高能量的电池,以及大量的电池,安全地组合成一个大电池。

By the time you tell a secret to a mad person then a normal person you cannot see.

当你把秘密告诉一个疯子的时候,你就看不到一个正常人了。

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.

如果我转身离开,我爱的眼泪就是在浪费时间。

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

没有永远的冬天;没有春天会错过它的机会。

Forever is composed of nows.

永远是由现在组成的。