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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I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.

我在上面已经论证过,我们无法阻止奇点的出现,奇点的到来是人类天生的竞争力和技术固有的可能性的必然结果。

The problem is you tend to look back and identify mistakes, and as a consequence of feeling terrible about mistakes you say you bungled this so bad, let's get out of here.

问题是,你倾向于回顾过去,找出错误,由于对错误感到很糟糕,你说你把这件事搞砸了,让我们离开这里。

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

我们从对现在的描绘中获得的快乐,不仅是因为它可以披上美丽的外衣,还因为它是现在的本质。

We must remember what we are, so that we can be ourselves even when we are not ourselves.

我们必须记住我们是谁,这样即使我们不是自己,我们也能做自己。

No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.

没有一种品味比别人的思维品质更容易获得。

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

但如果技术奇点能够发生,它就会发生。