I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.

  • -- Quincy Jones 昆西琼斯

我获得了西雅图大学的奖学金,当时我正在为歌手和所有人写安排。但是音乐课太枯燥了,我真想离开家。

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We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.

我们从未停止调查。我们从不满足于我们知道的足够多。我们回答的每一个问题都会引出另一个问题。这已经成为我们人类最伟大的生存技巧。

Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, - if the experiments don't work, then it means it's not science.

当然,不是每个人都愿意出去做实验,但是对于那些愿意出去做实验的人来说,如果实验不成功,那就意味着这不是科学。

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.

学问是一回事,苦差是另一回事。我很快得出结论,没有什么能吸引我去阅读,更不用说做笔记了,成百上千本非常、非常、非常无聊的书。

Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement.

另一方面,熵理论与一系列项目的连续概率无关,而是与给定排列中各种项目的总体分布有关。

I'm going to say this - to the people in Seattle, to all the people in Seattle that trust me, that believe in me - I'm going to say this: I'm not going to disappoint anybody.

我要对西雅图的人民说,对所有相信我、相信我的西雅图人说:我不会让任何人失望。

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

但是友谊是宝贵的,不仅在阴影中,而且在生活的阳光下,由于一个仁慈的安排,生活的大部分是阳光。

My dad is a very quick-witted, sarcastic, dry, humorous guy, whereas my mom's very silly, and that side of the family is very musical.

我的父亲是一个非常机智、讽刺、冷漠、幽默的人,而我的母亲非常愚蠢,而且这个家庭的那一面非常具有音乐性。

There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.

成百上千的人带着巨大的声音跑来跑去。如果他们学习和发展他们可以成为伟大的歌手。

Oh, man, pop singers are terrible actors. We're all bad.

哦,天哪,流行歌手是糟糕的演员。我们都是坏的。

I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.

我认为干式纳米技术可能是一个死胡同。

I can't say anything I don't love about Seattle.

我不能说任何我不喜欢西雅图的事情。

Of course I've done musicals here in London.

我当然在伦敦演过音乐剧。