Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.

  • -- Edmund White 埃德蒙·怀特

小说是对一个人想说什么,有什么感觉,有什么意思的不断探索,从这个意义上说,是一种行为艺术,而传记需要不同的技巧——研究和组织。

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I think anyone about to leave one job not surprisingly would use their knowledge, their experience, their skills drawn from their previous positions to try and earn a living in the future. That's what happens in all interviews.

我认为,任何即将离开一份工作的人都会毫不奇怪地利用他们从前工作中学到的知识、经验和技能,在未来谋生。所有的面试都是这样的。

The better a man is the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote into a top level job a man who was not making mistakes...otherwise he is sure to be mediocre.

一个人越优秀,他就会犯越多的错误,因为他会尝试更多的新事物。我永远不会提拔一个不犯错误的人进入高层工作……否则他一定是平庸的。

My goal was to develop into an independent research scientist studying clinical problems at the laboratory bench, but I felt that postgraduate residency training in internal medicine was necessary.

我的目标是成为一名独立的科研人员,在实验台上研究临床问题,但我觉得有必要进行内科住院医生的研究生培训。

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

从事这项工作的人是Macintosh背后的推动力量。我的工作是为他们创造一个空间,把公司的其他部分清理出去,让它远离你。

From now on, the technology companies that succeed will be those that have developed skills at listening and a sophisticated understanding of their customers' industries.

从现在开始,成功的科技公司将是那些具备倾听技巧和对客户所在行业有深刻理解的公司。

Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.

研究项目除了具有消极启发式外,还具有积极启发式的特点。