A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention.

专利，或者发明，是任何你可以组合在一起的技术或想法的集合，以前没有人用这种方式组合在一起。这就是专利局的定义。这是一个发明。

A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.

编程语言是用来思考程序的，而不是用来表达你已经想到的程序。它应该是一支铅笔，而不是一支钢笔。

A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.

一门不愿忘记其创始人的科学已经失败了。

A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens.

各种国家和国际研究表明，广泛部署信息技术可以对我国的经济生产力和增长以及我国公民的教育和社会成功产生重大影响。

Actually, because of new technologies, my full studio is on my laptop. And I have a little keyboard in my bag. I can make everything I do come from my laptop. Even when I go to a big studio, all I do is to plug in my laptops. That's they way I do it.

事实上，因为有了新技术，我的工作室都在我的笔记本电脑上。我的包里有一个小键盘。我可以用笔记本电脑做任何事情。即使当我去一个大的工作室，我所做的一切就是插入我的笔记本电脑。我就是这么做的。

And as the Society reminds us, there's a difference between knowledge and technology. Knowledge doesn't fail us.

社会提醒我们，知识和技术是有区别的。知识不会让我们失望。

And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing.

给我带一份因特网的硬拷贝，这样我就可以认真地上网了。

And this is one way to do technology forecasting; get a sense of where technology is, and then anticipate the next upturn.

这是技术预测的一种方法;了解一下技术的现状，然后预测下一轮的好转。

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

任何足够先进的技术都与魔法无异。

As a small company our fastest way to market was going to be by working with other retailers that were known for pioneering new technologies and categories.

作为一家小公司，我们进入市场最快的方式将是与其他以开拓新技术和品类而闻名的零售商合作。

As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment.

正如任何技术革命一样，总会有赢家和输家。总的来说，每个人都会走在前面，尽管有些特定的公司将无法适应新的环境。

As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action.

随着信息技术重构工作环境，它将思想从行动中抽象出来。

As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor.

随着技术的成熟，作为一个演员，你必须变得越不成熟。

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

随着现代世界的统一日益成为一种技术而不是社会事务，艺术的技术提供了洞察我们集体目标的真正方向的最有价值的手段。

As we become more and more wireless and impalpable, designers, instead, want us to be hands-on.

随着我们变得越来越无线化和不可触摸，设计师们反而希望我们亲自动手。