You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

  • -- Thomas John Watson, Sr. Thomas John Watson,高级

除非你主动询问,否则你不会听到关于你公司的不好的事情。听到好消息很容易,但是你必须努力才能听到坏消息。

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The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it. And so you really can't make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple's the only company that has everything under one roof.

大多数个人电脑公司的工程学早就过时了。在消费类电子产品公司,他们不了解其中的软件部分。所以现在你真的不能在其他任何地方生产你在苹果可以生产的产品。苹果是唯一一家把所有东西都放在一个屋檐下的公司。

Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it

人不能只靠肥皂生活,卫生,甚至健康,都不是很好,除非你能以健康的眼光看待它,或者更好的是,对它感到健康的漠不关心

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

永远不要让一个发明家经营一家公司。你永远无法让他停止修修补补,把东西推向市场。

All science is static in the sense that it describes the unchanging aspects of things.

所有的科学都是静态的,因为它描述了事物不变的方面。

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

好的照片没有规则,只有好的照片。

Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things.

动物园应该更多地关注事物的保护方面。

Never look down on someone unless you're helping them up.

永远不要瞧不起别人,除非你在帮助他们。

A home without books is a body without soul.

没有书的家就像没有灵魂的躯体。