People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium. [We] need to pay some more attention to that, because it's actually kind of fragile.

  • -- W.Daniel Hillis W.丹尼尔·希利斯

人们主要关注的是保护互联网上的计算机,但令人惊讶的是,很少有人关注保护互联网本身作为一种通信媒介。(我们)需要对此给予更多关注,因为它实际上有点脆弱。

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It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don't really want to build a company, they won't luck into it. That's because it's so hard that if you don't have a passion, you'll give up.

很难说这些互联网初创公司是真的对创业感兴趣,还是只是对钱感兴趣。不过,我可以告诉你:如果他们真的不想建立一家公司,他们就不会幸运地进入这家公司。那是因为这太难了,如果你没有激情,你就会放弃。

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.

我们的依赖使我们成为奴隶,尤其是如果这种依赖是对我们自尊的依赖。如果你需要每个人的鼓励、赞扬、鼓励,那么你就要让每个人都成为你的评判者。

When the Internet publicity began, I remember being struck by how much the world was not the way we thought it was, that there was infinite variation in how people viewed the world.

当网络宣传开始的时候,我记得我被震惊了,世界并不是我们想象的那样,人们看待世界的方式千差万别。

Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.

一些人弹钢琴,一些人做数独,一些人看电视,一些人出去参加晚宴。我写的书。

Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.

一夜成名对你的精神健康有害。是的。它毁了很多人。