The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.

  • -- Charles Babbage 巴贝奇

工具和机器之间的区别不能很精确地加以区分;在对这些术语的普遍解释中,也没有必要非常严格地限制它们的可接受性。

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My number-one goal is to never feel like I'm strictly defining myself. The minute I feel like I'm doing that as anything - as theatrical, as feminist, as songwriter - I feel like the minute I name it, I'm stuck in a box.

我的首要目标是永远不要觉得自己在严格定义自己。当我觉得我在做任何事情的那一刻——作为戏剧演员、女权主义者、作曲家——我觉得当我说出它的名字的那一刻,我就被困在了一个盒子里。

One person can make a difference. In fact, it's not only possible for one person to make a difference, it's essential that one person makes a difference. And believe it or not, that person is you.

一个人可以改变世界。事实上,一个人不仅有可能做出改变,重要的是一个人能做出改变。信不信由你,那个人就是你。

Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.

史诗以某种伟大的象征态度表现生活。它不能严格地说象征着生命本身,但总是某种生活方式。

What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?

有什么能比父母对孩子的爱更清楚、更合理的解释呢?

If you don’t know what you are doing, your works will never make any difference.

如果你不知道你在做什么,你的工作将永远不会有任何影响。

The universe is simple; it's the explanation that's complex.

宇宙很简单;这个解释很复杂。