There's a lot to be said for doing what you're not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what you're supposed to do are more subtle and take longer to become apparent, which maybe makes it less attractive. But your life is the blueprint you make after the building is built.

  • -- Richard Ford 理查德·福特

做你不应该做的事情有很多值得说的,而做你应该做的事情的回报更微妙,需要更长的时间才能变得明显,这可能会降低它的吸引力。但你的人生是你在大楼建成后绘制的蓝图。

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I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.

我不认为我的书是传记。我从来没有兴趣写一本书,只是为了写一个伟人的生活。我对此毫无兴趣。我的兴趣在于权力。权力是如何工作的。

The fact that we don't keep repeating tests in the same arena is not because the probability of the hypothesis showing its falsity in other arenas goes up after it has passed tests in one arena.

我们不在同一个领域重复测试的事实,并不是因为假设在一个领域通过测试后,在其他领域显示其虚假的可能性会上升。

Everybody has their story - at some point you have to say, 'This is who I am: Now it's up to me to become what I want to be.'

每个人都有自己的故事——在某种程度上,你不得不说,‘这就是我,现在我要做的就是成为我想成为的人。’

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

闲暇是做一些有用的事情的时间。这种闲暇勤奋的人永远得不到懒惰的人。

Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.

战后缔结的和平条约,是委托个人谈判和执行的。

As soon as you become complacent your show gets canceled.

一旦你变得自满,你的节目就会被取消。