Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

  • -- Benjamin Franklin 本杰明富兰克林

收益可能是暂时的和不确定的;可是,只要你活着,花销总是固定不变的,而且是确定无疑的。建造两个烟囱比把一个装进燃料里要容易得多。

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When I started, I was told that, for all intents and purposes, I was playing a human, which made it easier. Until they told me, 'Grace, you're a Cylon, she wouldn't do that.' And later, I learned that Cylons are actually more human than humans. This has been an ongoing exploration.

当我开始的时候,我被告知,出于各种目的,我在扮演一个人,这让我变得更容易。直到他们告诉我,‘格雷斯,你是赛昂人,她才会那样做。“后来,我了解到赛昂人实际上比人类更像人类。这是一个正在进行的探索。

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.

我们花了三年时间造出了下一代计算机。如果我们能满足客户的需求,我们就能在与他们交谈一年后制造出一台他们满意的电脑——而不是他们现在想要的东西。

Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk.

当他们的父母坐在沃尔沃的路边哭泣时,十几岁的孩子却无忧无虑地跳到不确定的未来,因为青少年的大脑还没有发育到足以识别和评估风险的程度。

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

没有什么比带头开创新秩序更困难,更危险,更不确定其成功的了。

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

政治混乱与语言的衰落有关。一个人也许可以通过从语言的结尾开始带来一些改善。

Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.

当然,有些日子比其他日子容易,但我最糟糕的一天比从事大多数单调的工作要好。

If we build something great, like we have at Travelers Group so far, a whole host of people benefit.

如果我们建立一些伟大的东西,就像我们目前在旅行者集团所做的那样,很多人都会受益。

Sanctions and boycotts would be tied to serious political dialogue.

制裁和抵制将与严肃的政治对话挂钩。