[Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in my head. I'm sitting here making grunting sounds and hopefully constructing a similar messy, confused idea in your head that bears some analogy to it.

  • -- W.Daniel Hillis W.丹尼尔·希利斯

如果你仔细想想,语言确实是一项非常了不起的发明。我脑子里有一个非常复杂,混乱,混乱的想法。我坐在这里发出咕哝的声音,希望在你的脑海中构建一个类似的混乱的,混乱的想法,与之类似。

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I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think.

我学会了尊重思想,无论它们来自何方。他们通常来自客户。不管一些作家怎么想,客户经理通常都有很大的创意。

Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibration as in twanging them to bring out their music.

说话就像弹琴;把双手放在琴弦上以停止琴弦的振动,与拨弄琴弦以奏出音乐一样重要。

In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.

事实上,死亡似乎是进化中一个相当晚的发明。在遇到一具真正的尸体之前,人类可以在进化过程中走很长的路。

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.

我有一种强烈的感觉,每一个项目都是一种发明,而不是我在建筑学课程中听到的一个词。

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

一个发展起来并付诸行动的想法,比仅仅作为一个想法而存在的想法更重要。

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

死人的言语,用火弹出来,比活人的言语更甚。