We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.

  • -- Rem Koolhaas 雷姆·库哈斯

我们说我们想创造美、身份、品质和独特性。然而,也许事实上,我们拥有的这些城市是我们想要的。也许正是他们的无个性为生活提供了最好的环境。

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Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you.

我们今天的成就不过是我们昨天思想的总和。今天是昨天的思想带给你的今天,明天是今天的思想带给你的明天。

The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.

问题不仅在于奇点代表着人类从中心舞台上的消亡,而且它与我们根深蒂固的存在观念相矛盾。

Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguarding bad work.

工会主义很少(如果有的话)使用它必须确保更好工作的权力;它几乎总是把这种力量的很大一部分用于保护不好的工作。

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

如果有一种品质是所有伟人共有的,那就是虚荣。

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

我父亲是谁并不重要;重要的是我记得他是谁。

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

任何知道一个奇怪事实的人都知道它的奇异之处。