The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.

  • -- Freeman Dyson 弗里曼·戴森

思考未来的目的不是预测未来,而是提高人们的希望。

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I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels.

我无法预测阅读习惯将如何改变。但我想说的是,最大的损失是纸质档案——不再是一大堆手稿、信件和作家生活中的笔记本,而是一小堆磁盘,小小的塑料饼干,曾经是书法奇迹的地方。

I don't buy the tabloids, but you're surrounded by it all and people tell you things they've read. I'd be sitting on a train looking over someone's shoulder and thinking: That's familiar... oh my God, it's me.

我不买小报,但你被它包围着,人们告诉你他们读过的东西。我会坐在火车上,越过某人的肩膀,想:这太熟悉了……天啊,是我。

My parents were not very happy. They were very worried about me pursuing a career that even if I had talent might not give me the happiness and the success that they - any parent hopes for their child.

我的父母不太高兴。他们非常担心我从事的职业,即使我有天赋,也不会给我带来他们——任何父母对他们孩子所希望的幸福和成功。

You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now.

你永远无法正确地预测未来,因为它最终会变成现实。所以当你写科幻小说的时候,你在做一些不同的事情。你现在正试图从不同的角度看问题。

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

阅读、思考和交谈有不同的规则。写作融合了这三者。

Great hopes make great men.

伟大的理想造就伟大的人物。