I couldn't understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it was because I wasn't flying as much.

  • -- Sir Alec Guinness 亚历克·吉尼斯爵士

我不明白,当我故意腾出更多的时间来写作时,为什么我的效率会下降。然后我意识到,这是因为我不常坐飞机。

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I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.

我拒绝了耶鲁大学的奖学金。大学教育的问题在于,人们往往会把准备工作错当成是提高工作效率。你可以准备你想要的一切,但如果你不掷骰子,你永远不会成功。

Trade helps bring us products cheaply, but there is no guarantee whatsoever to assume that it will allow us to replace the jobs that have been lost, and there is no mechanism under productivity that says that, either.

贸易为我们带来了廉价的产品,但我们不能保证它会让我们取代失去的工作岗位,生产率下也没有这样的机制。

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.

我活在这个世界上的时间刚刚够我仔细审视第二次,仔细审视我第一次确信无疑的事情。

Everybody thinks that I did this and I did that, but I just went along with the times.

每个人都认为我做了这个做了那个,但我只是随波逐流。