QUOTATIONS 引文
This is a wonderful quote from Douglas Adams, best known as the author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Adams suggested a set of rules which describe our relationship to technology:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt (Dirk Gently, #3)
一般人看待科技的三項大原則:
1. 任何在你出生前研發出來的科技是正常和非常普通的,生活和世界的自然運作的一部分。
2. 任何在你15到35歲之間研發出來的科技是刺激,新奇,劃時代的突破,並且你或許能夠在此新領域找到工作。
3. 任何在你35歲以後研發出來的科技都是違反自然規律而不該存在。
道格拉斯·諾耶爾·亞當斯 (英國作家: 《銀河便車指南》的作者)
「垂死的文化總是表現出個人行為粗魯的特徵。無禮的態度。 在小事上缺乏對他人的體貼。 大多數人失去禮貌,失去文雅,比暴動更具意義。」
——羅伯特 A. 海因萊因 (小說'星期五')
“A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Friday
「確實,有能力讓你相信荒謬道理的人也有能力讓你做出不公正的是來。」
(18世紀法國哲學家伏爾泰)
"Certainly, anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices."
(Voltaire)
The line above appeared within letter number eleven published in 1765 in Voltaire’s work “Collection des Lettres sur les Miracles” (“Collection of Letters on Miracles”).
「個人見解實際上是人類知識最不可靠的形式。 它不需要人負責任,也不需要人洞悉事理。 知識的最高境界……是同理心,因為它要求我們暫時放下自我,進入到另一個人的世界裡。」
「篤信宗教好比一個盲人在一間漆黑的房間裡尋找一隻並不存在的黑貓,而且還找到了牠。」 — 奧斯卡•王爾德
「評論家是一個甚麼都不創造的人,因此覺得有資格評判有創意的人的作品。 這是有邏輯的; 他沒有偏見,他很平等地憎恨所有有創造才能的人。」——羅伯特 A. 海因萊因 (科幻小說 '時間足夠讓你愛')
「人類擁有創造自己這不可剝奪的的權利; 當這種權利被別人搶占時,這稱為 '洗腦' 」。—— 吉曼·基爾 (澳洲出生的學者,作家及記者。)
「21世紀的文盲者,不再是不識字的人,而是那些不懂得學習,不懂得摒棄之前所學,不懂得重新學習的人。」 —— 艾文·托佛勒 (未來學家)"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." Alvin Toffler (Futurist)
“Give the future enough thought to be ready for it—but don’t worry about it. Live each day as if you were to die next sunrise. Then face each sunrise as a fresh creation and live for it, joyously. And never think about the past. No regrets, ever. Lazarus Long looked sad, then suddenly smiled and repeated, No regrets.” ― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
「給未來足夠的思考,為它做好準備——但不要擔心。 過好每一天,就好像你將要在明天日出時死去一樣。 然後把每一個日出當成一個新鮮的創造來面對,並為之快樂地生活。 並且永遠不要想過去。 絕對,絕對不要後悔。 拉撒路龍一臉悲傷,然後突然笑了笑,重複道:絕不後悔。」 ——羅伯特 A. 海因萊因 (科幻小說 '時間足夠讓你愛')
“Those who are wise won’t be busy, and those who are too busy can’t be wise.”
— Lin Yutang
「有智慧的人不會忙,太忙的人難以培養智慧。」—— 林語堂 (台灣國文學家)
"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. . ."
- Recollections And Essays by Leo Tolstoy
「人生的目的並非隨波逐流站在大多數人的那邊,而是要避免不知不覺地加入瘋子的行列 . . .」
- 托爾斯泰的回憶錄和散文
“My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.” - Socrates
「我建議你結婚:如果你找到了一個好老婆,你會很幸福; 若不幸福,你總可以成為哲學家。」 - 蘇格拉底
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
― Aldous Huxley, Collected Essays
「人們從歷史學到的最重要教訓,就是人類沒有從歷史中學到多少教訓。」 ― 阿道斯·赫胥黎 (英國作家) 論文集
“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
― Alan Watts, English writer and philosopher
「人生的意義就是要活著。這是如此清楚、顯而易見,又如此單純的事實。然而,每個人卻都匆忙地四處奔波,彷彿非得完成自身以外的甚麼偉大事業不可。」
—阿倫.沃茨 (英國作者兼哲學家)
"The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed." - Ernest Hemingway
「最優秀的人擁有靈敏度高的審美觀,承擔風險的勇氣,坦誠說真話的自律,以及自我犧牲的精神。諷刺的是,他們的這些美德往往暴露他們脆弱的一面;他們經常受傷,有時甚至被摧毀。」 - 海明威
"Man is quite insane. He wouldn't know how to create a maggot, and he creates gods by the dozen."
- Michel de Montaigne (French Renaissance Philosopher)
Essays (1580)
「人類真是太瘋狂了。 他們連一隻蛆蟲都創不出來,但為自己造出無數神祇。」
- 米歇爾·德·蒙田 (法國文藝復興時期的哲學家) 蒙田隨筆 (1580年)
"We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom."
- Edward Osborne Wilson, Biologist
「現代的資訊多到足以把人淹沒,但我們嚴重疏於培養智慧。」
- 愛德華·奧斯本·威爾遜,美國昆蟲學家、博物學家和生物學家。
“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You
「養成閱讀的習慣,就是為自己建造一個遠離生活中大多數苦難的避難所。」
― 威廉·薩默塞特·毛姆 (英國小說家)
“The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.” - Ernest Hemingway.
「對於一個管理不善的國家來説,第一個靈丹妙藥就是通脹,其次是戰爭。 兩者都帶來暫時的繁榮; 兩者都會帶來永久的敗壞。 但都是政治和經濟投機分子的避難所。」 - 海明威
“It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.”
― Thomas Sowell
(American author, economist, political commentator, and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.)
「試圖與那些在無知中享受道德優越感的人談論事實和分析通常是徒勞無益的。」
——湯瑪斯·索維爾
(美國經濟學家,社會理論家,史丹福大學胡佛研究所的高級研究員)
Don't let yourself be controlled by these three things: people, money, or past experiences.
不要讓自己受這三樣所控制:人、金錢、或過去的經歷。
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
— Marcel Proust (French Stream-of-Consciousness Novelist)
疾病是我們最願意聽從的「醫師」; 對於良善,對於知識,我們只許諾; 但疼痛我們不得不服從。
— 馬塞爾·普魯斯特 (法國意識流作家)
「當我們疲倦時,我們就會被早已征服過的思想所襲擊。」 — 尼采
“Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
「一個人若能使別人擁戴他成為總統,就絕不該擔任這項職務。」 — 道格拉斯·亞當斯 (英國作家)
「我寧願有一顆被幻想打開的頭腦,也不願有被信仰封閉的心智。」
— 杰拉爾德·倫納德·斯彭斯 (Gerald Leonard Spence) 是一名半退休的美國審判律師。
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
─Søren Kierkegaard (Nineteenth Century Danish Philosopher)
「人生只能在回顧中理解,但必須在前瞻中展開。」
或
「要領悟人生的含意,必須往後看;但要過好生活,必須向前看。」
— 索倫·齊克果(Soren Kierkegaard),19世紀丹麥哲學家