What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

  • -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世,罗切福科公爵

人们所说的友谊只不过是一种社会安排,一种利益的相互调整,一种给予和接受服务的交换;总之,这只是一个简单的业务,涉及的人建议从中获得稳定的利润,为自己的爱。

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As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that out. Other times, I'll just sit and roll tape.

在基本音轨被剪掉之后,如果我在写喇叭的编曲或者演奏弦乐,我可能会安排,计划好。其他时候,我只是坐着卷磁带。

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。

One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

为自己的利益而工作的人很可能会努力工作。为别人工作而不为自己谋利的人,很可能不会比他必须工作的更努力。

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

我们给人忠告,却不能以智慧使人得益处。