Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

  • -- Frank Lloyd Wright 弗兰克·劳埃德·赖特

把建造鸡舍和建造大教堂看作是同样可取的。

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When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.

当一个人看到他想要的东西时,他必须思考这样一个事实:随着时间的推移,它可能涉及到可憎的东西。当他看到有益的事情时,他应该意识到迟早它也会带来危害。

I have friends who are capable of writing a very rough draft and then going back and embroidering - they're sort of the cathedral builders of fiction. I never really know what I'm doing, and all my pleasure's on the level of the line.

我有一些朋友,他们能够写一个非常粗略的草稿,然后回去刺绣——他们有点像小说的大教堂建造者。我从来都不知道自己在做什么,我所有的快乐都在这条线上。

We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on.

我们不应该建立一种技术来给人们所说的话涂上颜色或涂上灰色。媒体总体上是平衡的,尽管有许多问题需要解决,但媒体正确地关注这些问题。

The absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of information theory.

如果我们考察一下目前的信息论术语,就会发现,忽视结构而同样使用秩序概念的荒谬后果是显而易见的。

You really just have to come in and build the spirit up of your team by working them everyday, showing them examples of what they've done and reinforce their work.

你只需要每天和他们一起工作,向他们展示他们所做的事情的例子,并加强他们的工作,从而建立起团队的精神。

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

传统的人们因背离传统而愤怒,很大程度上是因为他们认为这种背离是对自己的批评。

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

至少在我们变得像他们一样聪明之前,我们不得不认为我们的许多原始头脑是疯狂的。

Sometimes we used to eat once a day... chicken backs. You could buy four chicken backs for a quarter.

有时我们一天吃一次……鸡的身上。你可以花一个季度买四个鸡背。

Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?

难道整个世界不是一座庞大的让与房屋吗?

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it .is greatness.

做必须做的事。这也许不是幸福,但却是伟大。

My house is completely organized from my closets to my drawers.

我的房子从壁橱到抽屉都井井有条。

My God, he looks like he's beating a chicken.

天啊,他看起来像在打鸡。