What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

  • -- Edward W. Howe 爱德华·W·豪

人们在你背后说的是你在社会中的地位。

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My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was because I found it amusing. But I also constructed such an image for myself in order to gain more of a private life.

我的名声有点被夸大了。报纸上写的东西,然后复制,然后翻倍。我从未否认这一点的原因之一,是因为我觉得这很有趣。但为了获得更多的私人生活,我也为自己构建了这样一个形象。

Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive almost anything short of a global catastrophe.

多样性是社区自身的生存因素。一个由一亿物种组成的群落几乎可以在任何情况下生存,除了全球性灾难。

For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.

因为孤立的动物利己主义是一种倾向于保护和改善物种的美德:在任何一种群体中,它都是一种破坏性的恶习。

If one has a good reputation and trusted, the rules can be bent to accommodate.

如果一个人拥有良好的声誉和信任,这些规则可以被变通以适应。

Some people live where they work. Others just visit.​

有些人住在他们工作的地方。其他人只是访问。

I like playing weird, kind of shady people.

我喜欢扮演奇怪的,有点可疑的人。