A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

  • -- Clifton Fadiman 克利夫顿·费迪曼

幽默感是理解笑话的能力——而笑话就是你自己。

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We have very strong intuitions about all kinds of things our own ability, how the economy works, how we should pay school teachers. But unless we start testing those intuitions, we’re not going to do better.

我们对自己的能力、经济如何运行、我们应该如何支付学校老师的工资等所有事情都有很强的直觉。但除非我们开始测试这些直觉,否则我们不会做得更好。

What is the harm of doing the right thing? What is the harm of doing our job as legislators and making sure we do not stick the entire bankruptcy community with these provisions that do not make any sense?

做正确的事有什么害处?作为立法者,我们的职责是确保我们不让整个破产界都遵守这些毫无意义的条款,这有什么害处呢?

You have got to believe in yourself every time you go out there and race. If you have no faith in your ability all that training has been a waste of time.

每次你出去比赛的时候都要相信自己。如果你对自己的能力没有信心,那么所有的训练都是在浪费时间。

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.

从某种意义上说,我觉得我的书是反对决定论的一个女人的论点。

To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time.

说服自己有权利过体面的生活需要时间。