One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.

  • -- Russell Banks 罗素·班克斯

我在这本书中尝试做的一件事就是避免那种简单的,简单的,简单化的动机观来展示我们做事情是为了一个复杂的原因网,一个真正的原因编织。

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Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail.

尽管我强调技术,但我并不认为法律本身就是邪恶的。我的目标是政治目标,即使我的技巧不是。从根本上取得成功的唯一途径是改变现有的法律。如果我拒绝政治舞台上的一切帮助,我将不可避免地失败。

Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

物理学变得如此复杂,以至于培养一个物理学家需要的时间越来越长。事实上,要把一个物理学家培养到能够理解物理问题本质的程度需要很长时间,以至于他已经老得无法解决这些问题了。

Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is.

每个人都有一个世界,在我们开始探究之前,这个世界是完全隐藏的。一旦我们这样做了,整个世界就会向我们敞开大门,让自己屈服。你可以看到它是多么的完整和复杂。

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

我总是避免事先预言,因为在事情已经发生之后再预言是更好的策略。

The cheerful mind perseveres and the strong mind hews its way through a thousand difficulties.

快乐的心能坚持,坚强的心能克服千难万险。

My motivation has always been health - eating healthy and taking care of myself.

我的动力一直是健康——吃得健康,照顾好自己。

We'll first address our inaccurate view of God and, consequently of ourselves.

我们首先要解决的是我们对上帝的不准确的看法,以及由此产生的对我们自己的看法。

One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it.

一个人常常在逃避命运的路上遇见它。