A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

  • -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

生命中最重要的一件事,就是有一天我们遇到了一种使我们吃惊的思想。

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That is why one day I said my game will be like the Pythagorean Theorem - hard to figure out. A lot of people really don't know the Pythagorean Theory. They don't make them like me anymore. They don't want to make them like that anymore.

这就是为什么有一天我说我的游戏会像勾股定理一样——很难算出来。很多人都不知道勾股定理。他们不再喜欢我了。他们不想再那样做了。

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

在我的世界里,历史可以归结为语言和艺术。没有人太在意曾经打过什么仗,谁赢了谁输了——除非有一幅画、一出戏、一首歌或一首诗讲述了这个事件。

Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.

语言并不擅长描述复杂、奇怪的视觉事物。你可以试一试,读者的脑海中会有一些图像,但文字并不擅长这些。

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

小小的心灵会被不幸驯服和征服;但伟大的思想高于它们。

I haven't been out of work since the day I took my pants off.

自从我脱掉裤子后,我就没有失业过。