A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.

  • -- Charles Babbage 巴贝奇

因此,对促进一项研究和对最完全占用时间的其他工作的职责的促进存在着一种强大的吸引力,而这比任何科学知识对其他工作的促进作用都要小。

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And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time.

我意识到,当我带着这些波纹金属和链环参加会议时,人们会看着我,就像我刚从火星着陆一样。但我无能为力。这是我对人民和时间的回应。

He did once say the time to worry is when they stop writing about you but again I think that was pretty token of the coverage was very respectful, he rather resented the intrusions on his private life, but that was about it.

他曾经说过要担心的时候是他们停止写你的时候,但我想这再次证明了报道是非常尊重人的,他很讨厌别人干涉他的私生活,但仅此而已。

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

我说不出这种力量是什么;我所知道的是,它的存在,只有当一个人处于一种他确切知道他想要什么,并下定决心不放弃直到他找到它的精神状态时,它才会成为可能。

The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.

受教育的问题在于它需要很长时间;它占用了你生活中较好的部分,当你完成工作后,你知道,如果你进入银行业,你会受益更多。

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.

坚不可摧是一:它是每一个个体的人,同时也是所有人的共性,因此人类之间存在着不可比拟的不可分割的统一。

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

我们必须在我们所能得到的东西中找到我们的责任,而不是在可能发生的事情中。

If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.

如果一个人值得你去了解,他就值得你去了解。

Real-life duties eat valuable writing time.

现实生活中的工作占用了宝贵的写作时间。

Acquaintance lessens fame.

熟人减少名声。