To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

  • -- Richard Whately 理查德·怀特利

遵循不完善的、不确定的或腐败的传统,以避免在我们自己的判断中犯错,只不过是用一种危险来交换另一种危险。

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If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.

如果你从飞机上取下一个铆钉,它会没事的,它会继续飞。你把另一个铆钉拿出飞机,它仍然能飞。所以管他呢,让我们把更多的铆钉从飞机上拿下来,飞机迟早会从天上掉下来。

I enjoy being given a certain amount of freedom in order to interpret or to come up with stuff, but I do enjoy collaboration. I seek and thrive on projects where I am going to learn from the people I'm working with.

我喜欢被给予一定的自由来解释或想出一些东西,但我确实喜欢合作。我希望能在向同事学习的项目中获得成功。

Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.

因为厚颜无耻是一种恶习,所以并不意味着谦虚是一种美德;它建立在羞耻的基础上,是我们天性中的一种激情,根据动机所产生的行为,它可以是好是坏。

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

我们都有梦想。但是为了让梦想成真,它需要极大的决心、奉献、自律和努力。

I am not a Sufi, but I follow the Sufi.

我不是苏菲派,但我追随苏菲派。

One man's folly is another man's wife.

一人之愚,另一人之妻。