There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true.

  • -- Ian Hart 伊恩·哈特

有一个统计理论,如果你给一百万只猴子打字机,让它们工作,它们最终会写出莎士比亚的全集。多亏了互联网,我们现在知道这不是真的。

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Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.

重大的社会运动最终会淡出人们的视野,不是因为它们已经减少,而是因为它们已经成为我们的感知和经验的一个永久组成部分。

It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.

的确,我经常对每隔几个月就会出现的新形式的奇怪方向和挑衅性内容感到震惊,甚至愤怒和排斥。

Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns.

最后我想接触所有的类型。我想做一些侦探小说,我想做一部西部片。我想拍幽默的西部片。

A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.

一本精心挑选的选集是一个完整的药房,为更常见的精神疾病的药物,并可以用于预防和治疗。

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

我们知道如何说许多类似真实事物的谎言,但我们知道,当我们愿意时,如何说真实的东西。

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.

说出真相只有两种方式——匿名和死后。