As a social good, I think privacy is greatly overrated because privacy basically means concealment. People conceal things in order to fool other people about them. They want to appear healthier than they are, smarter, more honest and so forth.

  • -- Richard Posner 波斯纳

作为一种社会公益,我认为隐私被严重高估了,因为隐私基本上意味着隐藏。人们隐瞒事情是为了愚弄别人。他们想表现得比自己更健康,更聪明,更诚实等等。

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To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

要能写剧本,一个人必须敏感、富于想象力、天真、易受骗、热情;他一定是个低能儿,诗人,说谎者,一个该死的傻瓜。

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

在现代商业中,最可怕的不是骗子,而是不知道自己在做什么的诚实的人。

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

一个人不应该太诚实。直树先砍,诚实人先遭殃。

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

做一个人自己的傻瓜已经够糟了,但是虚荣的人却是每个人的。

There's place and means for every man alive.

每个活着的人都有自己的位置和生活方式。