At a minimum the majority of search dollars will flow to a social media model because people care most about what their peers think and the technology is there for that information to be quickly shared on products and services.

至少，大部分搜索资金将流向社交媒体模式，因为人们最关心的是他们的同行怎么想，而且有技术可以让这些信息在产品和服务上快速共享。

Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production.

由于技术的限制，我们每英亩可以生产一定数量的食物。如果我们有集约化的温室农业，我们就能有更高的产量。

Behavioral tracking is an area today that has very few regulations and even fewer rules.

行为跟踪是当今一个几乎没有规则，甚至更少规则的领域。

Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.

构建技术系统需要大量的工作和专业知识:语言和协议、编码和调试、测试和重构。

But any big change is more likely to result if there is a disruptive event such as new technologies or platforms that have a surprising effect on market share.

但如果出现颠覆性事件，如新技术或平台对市场份额产生惊人影响，任何重大变革都更有可能发生。

But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before.

但现在有了科技，我可以坐下来，画一堆字符图，然后扫描到电脑里，电脑用我的风格把它变成了现实，以前很多人都会编辑它。

But some great records are are being made with today's technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today who are so reliant on modern technology, they wouldn't have emerged when recording was more organic.

但是一些伟大的记录是用今天的技术创造的，我们当中仍然有伟大的艺术家。同样，今天也有一些艺术家如此依赖现代技术，如果唱片更加有机，他们也不会出现。

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

香槟，如果你在寻找真相，比测谎仪更好。它鼓励男人大胆，甚至鲁莽，而测谎仪只是成功说谎的一个挑战。

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

文明的进步是通过扩大我们可以不加思索地进行的重要活动的数量。

Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist.

计算机技术已经深入我们的生活，成为每一位艺术家生活的一部分。

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.

网络空间。在每个国家，每天都有数以亿计的合法操作者，通过教孩子数学概念，体验到一种双方同意的幻觉。

Defect-free software does not exist.

没有缺陷的软件并不存在。

Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.

从最广泛的意义上说，设计是数字时代的推动者——它是一个从混乱中创造秩序的过程，使技术对业务可用。设计意味着优秀，而不仅仅是好看。

Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail.

尽管我强调技术，但我并不认为法律本身就是邪恶的。我的目标是政治目标，即使我的技巧不是。从根本上取得成功的唯一途径是改变现有的法律。如果我拒绝政治舞台上的一切帮助，我将不可避免地失败。

Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?

你知不知道如果没有爱迪生，我们现在就只能在烛光下看电视了?