If one tries to think about history, it seems to me - it's like looking at a range of mountains. And the first time you see them, they look one way. But then time changes, the pattern of light shifts. Maybe you've moved slightly, your perspective has changed. The mountains are the same, but they look very different.

  • -- Robert Harris 罗伯特·哈里斯

如果一个人试图思考历史,在我看来,这就像在看山脉。当你第一次看到它们的时候,它们会朝一个方向看。但随着时间的推移,光的模式也发生了变化。也许你已经稍微移动了一下,你的视角已经改变了。山是一样的,但是它们看起来很不一样。

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To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.

正确使用书籍,就是向他们寻求帮助;当我们自己的知识和力量失败的时候,呼吁他们;在他们的引导下,我们能看到比我们自己更广阔的视野和更纯洁的观念,并从他们那里接受法官和议会对我们孤立和不稳定的意见的一致判决。

A great deal of creativity is about pattern recognition, and what you need to discern patterns is tons of data. Your mind collects that data by taking note of random details and anomalies easily seen every day: quirks and changes that, eventually, add up to insights.

大量的创造力是关于模式识别的,而你需要识别模式的是大量的数据。你的大脑通过记录每天很容易看到的随机细节和异常现象来收集数据:这些怪癖和变化,最终会累积成洞见。

I guess I'm lucky that I've been able to play a wide range of parts and a wide range of types of productions - I haven't felt much typecasting.

我想我很幸运,我能够扮演各种各样的角色,制作各种各样的作品——我没有觉得自己被定型了。

Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our noticing for a time that they have happened.

奇怪的事情发生在我们所有人的生活中,而我们却没有注意到他们已经发生了一段时间。

When I look down the range at the target all I can do is try to distinguish between the different colors.

当我向下看目标的范围时,我所能做的就是试着区分不同的颜色。

To understand is to perceive patterns.

理解就是感知模式。