There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.

  • -- Christopher James Hampton 克里斯托弗·詹姆斯·汉普顿

有一种理论认为,你应该改编烂书,因为它们总是能拍出更成功的电影。

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Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.

动物能够适应问题并做出发明,但往往并不比自然选择发挥作用的速度快——在自然选择的例子中,世界充当着自己的模拟器。

There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.

对任何物理理论来说,没有比这更公平的命运了:它应该为一种更全面的理论指明道路,在这种理论中,它作为一种极限情况而存在。

I know my parents are really proud of me, and they think I've become successful, so that's nice, but there's still so much I want to achieve in my life.

我知道我的父母为我感到骄傲,他们认为我已经成功了,这很好,但是我的生活中还有很多我想要实现的。

The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.

大多数人看到了障碍;少数人看到了目标;历史记录了后者的成功,而遗忘则是前者的奖赏。

To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

做一个成功的父亲…有一个绝对的规则,当你有一个孩子的时候,头两年不要看它。

I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose.

我是个喜欢玩游戏和理论的人。我喜欢猜谜,所以剖析莎士比亚的散文很有趣。

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

作为人类,我们确实会改变、成长、适应,甚至学习,变得更聪明。

I'm the most successful bad player ever.

我是有史以来最成功的坏球员。