The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past.

  • -- Lewis Thomas 路易斯·汤马斯

未来太过有趣和危险,不能委托给任何可预测、可靠的机构。我们需要尽可能多的犯错。最重要的是,我们需要保持我们相互联系的思想的绝对不可预测性和完全不可能性。这样我们就可以像过去一样,保留所有的选择。

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If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.

如果你在生活中只有一种激情——足球——你不顾一切地追求它,它就会变得非常危险。当你停止做这件事的时候,就好像你正在死去。活动的死亡本身就是死亡。

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

我最大的信仰是相信血肉之躯比智慧更有智慧。我们的思想可能会出错。但是我们的血液所感觉到的、相信的和所说的,总是真实的。智力只不过是一根缰绳。

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

站在路中间是很危险的;你被两边的车辆撞倒了。

We were worried about that actually. The cast was thinking that they'd lose their minds. But we didn't.

实际上我们很担心。演员们认为他们会失去理智。但是我们没有。