It's strange that we create tech and then we apply it to machines, when we could apply it to ourselves. Cars can now detect if something is behind them, but we don't have this ability. Why are we applying such a simple sense to a car when we could apply it to ourselves?

  • -- Neil Harbisson 哈比森

奇怪的是,我们创造了技术,然后把它应用到机器上,而我们可以把它应用到我们自己身上。汽车现在可以探测到背后是否有东西,但我们没有这种能力。为什么我们要把这样一个简单的概念应用到汽车上,而我们可以把它应用到我们自己身上呢?

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I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange.

我喜欢坏男孩类型。一般来说,吸引我的是俱乐部里那个满身纹身、涂着指甲油的家伙。他通常是朋克乐队的主唱,还弹吉他。但我认真的男朋友都是相对干净的好人。这是奇怪的。

Everybody hangs out with everybody, which is very strange for a cast this large and this young. We're all cool and down to earth and not caught up in this maniacal business at all... . Everybody really, really likes everybody else.

每个人都和每个人在一起,对于这么大的演员阵容和这么年轻的演员来说,这很奇怪。我们都很冷静,脚踏实地,一点也不卷入这种疯狂的事情…每个人都非常非常喜欢其他人。

The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of.

我们都有能力和愿望将手头的平凡材料转化为合作的一部分,这远远超出了所有部件的总和——生产一个我们都不能声称是单亲的新生儿。

You honor me greatly and beyond my ability as an individual but in so doing you honor my colleagues also who made possible the results you have cited.

你们极大地尊重我,超越了我个人的能力,但你们这样做,也尊重我的同事,他们使你们所引用的结果成为可能。

Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.

研究包括四件事:用来思考的大脑,用来看东西的眼睛,用来测量的机器,第四,钱。

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.

随着机器变得越来越高效和完美,人类的伟大之处就会变得越来越明显:不完美。