有趣 / 有料 / 涨知识

Your smarts will come in handy because you will travel in a land of marvels. We humans -- plodding as we are -- will astonish ourselves. We'll invent ways to generate clean energy and a lot of it. Atom by atom， we'll assemble tiny machines that will enter cell walls and make repairs. This month comes the extraordinary but also inevitable news that we've synthesized life. In the coming years， we'll not only synthesize it， but we'll engineer it to specifications. I believe you'll even see us understand the human brain. Jules Verne， Mark Twain， Galileo， Newton -- all the curious from the ages would have wanted to be alive most of all right now. As a civilization， we will have so many gifts， just as you as individuals have so many individual gifts as you sit before me.

你们的聪明才智必定会派上用场，因为你们将在一片充满奇迹的土地上行进。我们人类，尽管跬步前行，却终将令自己大吃一惊。我们能够想方设法制造清洁能源，也能够一个原子一个原子地组装微型机械，使之穿过细胞壁，然后修复细胞。这个月，有一个异常而不可避免的事情发生了——人类终于合成了生命。在未来几年，我们不仅会合成生命，还会按说明书驱动它们。我相信你们甚至会看到我们理解人类的大脑，儒勒·凡尔纳，马克·吐温，伽利略，牛顿——所有那些充满好奇之心的人都希望能够活到现在。作为文明人，我们会拥有如此之多的天赋，就像是坐在我面前的你们，每一个生命个体都拥有许多独特的天赋。

杰夫·贝索斯

被选中的非凡人物为了新世界的成长，拥有僭越现行秩序的权利。

陀思妥耶夫斯基

妾弄青梅凭短墙，君骑白马傍垂杨。墙头马上遥相顾，一见知君即断肠。

白居易

You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it's made out of. Nothin else.

你以为早上醒来昨天就不算数了。但昨天才是真正算数的。还有什么呢？你的生命就是由那些日子组成的。没有别的。

科马克·麦卡锡

我有个原则：想到要做一件事，就一定要做到，而且要做得彻底。

狄更斯

颂扬别人常常是肯定自我，指责别人常常是反射着自我的弱点，嘲笑自我常常是嘲笑别人，给别人抬杠其实也是抬自我，以上是分享律，或曰借光效应。

王蒙