There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.

  • -- Barbara Amiel 艾米尔

在西方,有时会有一种特殊的困惑,把进步等同于最近的或新的东西,现在是时候让我们明白,进步与思想的年代无关。

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It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.

语言的清晰度和内容仍然不够……它还必须有一个目标和一个当务之急。否则,我们从语言堕落到喋喋不休,从喋喋不休到胡言乱语,从胡言乱语到混乱不堪。

I'm relatively physically adept and I like throwing myself around. Once, twice, but then you get to nine, ten, eleven and to try and make it look realistic all the time, that's not very pleasant.

我的身体相对比较好,我喜欢到处乱扔。一次,两次,然后是九,十,十一试着让它一直看起来很真实,这不是很令人愉快的。

Dark is not opposite of light. It is just the absence of light. Similarly, a problem is the absence of an idea. Not absence of a solution.

黑暗不是光明的对立面。只是没有光。同样,问题是缺乏一个想法。不是没有解决方案。

Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.

任何时候我在移动的物体上,比如飞机上,我通常在我们上路之前就睡着了。