All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

  • -- Thomas John Watson, Sr. Thomas John Watson,高级

只要人们愿意思考,世界上所有的问题都可以很容易地解决。问题是,人们常常为了不思考而使用各种各样的方法,因为思考是一项如此艰难的工作。

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Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.

秩序是头脑的健全,身体的健康,城市的和平,国家的安全。秩序之于万物,犹如房屋之梁,房屋之骨。

I think the best thing about being pregnant would definitely have to be seeing just my belly grow and seeing, like, wow, there is, you know, something inside of me.

我想怀孕最好的事情一定是看着我的肚子长大,然后看到,哇,你知道,我的内心有某种东西。

It takes so long to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

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。

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.

在世界范围内,拥有专断的权力总是不可抗拒地破坏人类的感性、宽宏大量和真理。

The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it.

能源农业的问题在于,能源并不总是在你想使用它的地方,也不总是在你想使用它的时候。

After all the world is indeed beautiful and if we were any other creature than man we might be continuously happy in it.

毕竟,世界确实是美丽的,如果我们是人类以外的任何其他生物,我们可能会一直在其中快乐。

And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.

我正在努力寻找一种不那么容易被期望调节的语言。

Girls have a bad habit of holding on for too long, guys have a bad habit of letting go too easily.

女孩的坏习惯是坚持太久,男孩的坏习惯是轻易放手。

As we grow older I always think, why didn't I do more when I was young, why didn't I risk more?

随着年龄的增长,我总是在想,为什么我年轻时没有做得更多,为什么我没有冒更多的风险?

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

几乎所有的人都能忍受逆境,但如果你想测试一个人的性格,给他力量。

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

行善是高尚的;但向别人展示如何做一个好人是高尚的,没有麻烦。

Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past.

我的大部分书在过去都造成了发行和印刷的问题。

In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind.

在某种程度上,一个人能够从理性思维中获得稳定。

Men must know their limitations.

男人必须知道自己的局限性。