Quotes
Randy Pausch - Last Lecture
Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome.
你必须要有一些真本领，这样可以让你更受欢迎。
You've got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn't going to work.
你必须练好基本功，否则后面的事情都不会发生。
That was a bit of a setback.
你总会遇到挫折。
But remember, the brick walls are there for a reason.
但是记住，它们的出现不是没有原因的。
The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.
砖墙并不是为了挡住我们。它在那里，只是为了测试，我们的决心到底有多迫切。
Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They're there to stop the other people.
它在那里挡住了那些没有强烈决心的人。它不让那些人通过。
Remember brick walls let us show our dedication.They are there to separate us from the people who don't really want to achieve their childhood dreams.
记住，砖墙的存在是为了显示我们自己付出的决心。它使得我们，同那些并不真的想实现梦想的人得以区分。
Some tips:
i. Helping others.
帮助他人。
ii. Never lose the childlike wonder. It's what drives us.
永远不要失去好奇心，它是人类前进的动力。
iii. Loyalty is a two way street.
诚以待人，这样别人也会忠实地对待你。
iv. Never give up.
永远不要放弃。
v. You can't get there alone. People have to help you. You get people to
help you by telling the truth.
你不能单打独斗，必须有人来帮你。只要你讲真话，就会有人来帮你。
vi. Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.
当你把事情搞砸，首先要向别人道歉，首先关心他们的损失，而不是你自己的损失。
vii. When you do the right thing, good stuff has a way of happening.
如果你做了正确的事，好的结果自然会发生。
viii. Get a feedback loop and listen to it.
注意倾听反馈。
ix. Show gratitude.
感恩。
x. Don't complain. Just work harder.
不要抱怨，而要加倍努力。
xi. Be good at something, it makes you valuable.
要有一技之长，它使你有价值。
xii. Work hard.
努力再努力。
xiii. Find the best in everybody.
注意发现他人的优点。
xiv. Be prepared. Luck is truly where preparation meets opportunity.
做好准备。所谓幸运，真的是机会和准备的结合。
"you can't control the cards you're dealt, just how you play the hand."
莫迫桑 - 《人生》
La vie, voyez-vous, ça n'est jamais si bon ni si mauvais qu'on croit. ----Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant 《Une Vie》
生活不可能像你想象得那么好，但也不会像你想象得那么糟。
我觉得人的脆弱和坚强都超乎自己的想象。
有时，我可能脆弱得一句话就泪流满面；有时，也发现自己咬着牙走了很长的路。
狄更斯 - 《双城记》
这是最好的时代，这是最坏的时代；
这是智慧的时代，这是愚蠢的时代；
这是信仰的时期，这是怀疑的时期；
这是光明的季节，这是黑暗的季节；
这是希望之春，这是失望之冬；
人们面前有着各样事物，人们面前一无所有；人们正在直登天堂，人们正在直下地狱。
米兰·昆德拉 - unknown
永远不要认为我们可以逃避，
我们的每一步都决定着最后的结局，
我们的脚步正在走向我们自己选定的终点。
Charlie Chaplin - My Autobiography
When the fates deal in human destiny, they heed neither pity nor justice.
茨威格 - 《断头王后》
She was still too young to know that life never gives anything for nothing, and that a price is always exacted for what fate bestows.
- Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman by Stefan Zweig
她那时候还太年轻，不知道所有命运赠送的礼物，早已在暗中标好了价格。
DAVID KUSHNER - 《DOOM启世录》
“In the information age, the barriers just aren’t there,” he said. “The barriers are self-imposed. If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don’t need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on, and the dedication to go through with it. We slept on floors. We waded across rivers.”
"在信息时代，客观障碍已不复存在，"他说："所谓障碍都是主观上的。如果你想动手开发什么全新的技术，你不需要几百万美元的资金，你只需要在冰箱里放满比萨和可乐，再有一台便宜的计算机，和为之献身的决心。我们在地板上睡过，我们从河水中趟过。"
Paul Graham - 《黑客与画家》
GOOD DESIGN IS HARD. If you look at the people who've done great work, one thing they all seem to have in common is that they worked very hard.
If you're not working hard, you're probably wasting your time.
Hard problems call for great efforts. In math, difficult proofs require ingenious solutions, and these tend to be interesting. Ditto in engineering.
When you have to climb a mountain you toss everything unnecessary out of your pack. And so an architect who has to build on a difficult site, or a small
budget, will find that he's forced to produce an elegant design. Fashions and flourishes get knocked aside by the difficult business of solving the problem
at all.
Not every kind of hard is good. There is good pain and bad pain. You want the kind of pain you get from going running, not the kind you get from stepping on a nail.
如果观察那些做出伟大作品的人，你会发现他们的共同点是工作的非常艰苦。如果你工作的不艰苦，你可能正在浪费时间。并非所有痛苦都是有益的。世界上有有益的痛苦，也有无益的痛苦。你需要的是咬牙向前冲刺的痛苦，而不是脚被钉子扎破的痛苦。
Sebastian Nigro - Indie Success, Does It Exist?
Success isn't something that just rolls into your lap after you've spent the night eating ice cream and crying yourself to sleep. It's earned through years of frustration, emotional roller coasters, and self-doubt. You have to go out and really fight for it. Imagine standing in a room with 10,000 other developers and coming out on top. That's your odds and you have to beat them.
Sometimes this means cutting corners, leaving people behind, and sometimes even going against your own instincts. If you really want it you have to be willing to give up everything for it. You can't play it safe and you have to accept the fact that you might fail even if you do everything right.
Louis Pasteur - Lecture, University of Lille (7 December 1854)
Dans les champs de l'observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits préparés.
- In the fields of observation chance favours only the prepared mind.
- Alternate translations of this or similar statements include:
- Chance favors the prepared mind.
- Fortune favors the prepared mind.
Giovanni Maria Cecchi - La Dote, Act 7., Scene II
Chi vuol far, vadia, e chi non vuol far, mandi.
La Dote, Act 7., Scene II. — (Ippolito).
Translation: If you want a thing done, go yourself; if not, send.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 275.
George Latimer Apperson, Martin H. Manser - Dictionary of Proverbs
If you wish a thing done, go; if not, send.
Benjamin Franklin - “The Way to Wealth” (1758):
if you would have your business done, go; if not, send.
(Also from Poor Richard's Almanac)
Romain Rolland
You are a vain fellow. You want to be a hero. That is why you do such silly things. A hero! ... I don't quite know what that is: but, you see, I imagine that a hero is a man who does what he can. The others do not do it.
Gottfried to Jean-Christophe. Part 3: Ada
Variant translation: A hero is one who does what he can. The others don't.
As quoted in A Book of French Quotations (1963) by Norbert Guterman, p. 365
There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it.
生活中只有一种英雄主义，那就是在认清生活真相之后依然热爱生活。
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