[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 don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.

我不懂语法规则……如果你试图说服人们做某事,或者买东西,在我看来,你应该使用他们的语言,他们每天使用的语言,他们思考的语言。我们尽量用方言写作。

The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.

一个人学习如何利用自然的力量为自己的目的,通过完善科学和机器的发明和改进,他会生产更多。

If I don't have a project going, I sit down and begin to write something - a character sketch, a monologue, a description of some sight, or even just a list of ideas.

如果我没有正在进行的项目,我会坐下来开始写一些东西——一个人物素描,一段独白,对一些场景的描述,甚至只是一串想法。

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

想出新点子很容易;最难的部分是放弃两年前对你有用的东西,但很快就会过时。

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

所有的感知也是思考,所有的推理也是直觉,所有的观察也是发明。

Hands have their own language.

手有自己的语言。