Sentence of the day 2

excuter
July 12, 2007, 01:51 PM posted in General Discussion

 

              这两件事是无限的,宇宙和人类的愚蠢, 但随着宇宙的,我还不完全安全的,我

                                              爱因斯坦

 

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ivyzhang
July 12, 2007, 02:55 PM

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -Albert Einstein"---只有两样东西是不可穷尽的:宇宙与人类的愚蠢,而我对前者还不很肯定。——爱因斯坦

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excuter
July 12, 2007, 05:09 PM

to say it with the words of the Butler from dinner for one "I do my very best" ;-)

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excuter
July 12, 2007, 03:01 PM

ivyzhang beats google translation down, another proof for word by word translation sucks most often ;-)

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bazza
July 12, 2007, 04:03 PM

I've noticed Google seems to have improved lately, it used to be really bad.

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excuter
July 12, 2007, 04:09 PM

as we can see: it didn´t improve enough yet 8-(

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excuter
July 12, 2007, 02:56 PM

this time I didn´t translate directly afterwards (but it´s easy to guess the sentence if you translate the name of this genius)

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KennyK
July 12, 2007, 04:31 PM

Nice quote... however, my favorite Einstein quote is the one that's something like "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from those with mediocre minds"

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excuter
July 12, 2007, 05:00 PM

I googled it, it´s: "Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds." 伟大的神,经常遇到暴力反抗,从弱头脑 is the Googletranslation for that one (sentence of the day two shouldn´t mean I post two sentences but however...) ;-)

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bazza
July 12, 2007, 05:04 PM

excuter, you could always do Chinese quote of the day. :)

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excuter
July 12, 2007, 05:06 PM

why not... ;-)

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excuter
July 12, 2007, 04:18 PM

maybe because I translated it from german into english with Google (wanted to be shure it´s correct) even though the translation was a bit strange I went on with that translation...