And will make mistakes. And therefore, you write your programs so that catastrophes don't occur when those mistakes are made.

就是人是很愚蠢的，会犯错误的，因此，你要这样设计你的程序,以达到当犯错误时避免大事故的目的。

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These are stupid questions, because once you understand what they're asking, the answer is just built in. It follows trivially.

这是些很愚蠢的问题,因为一旦你明白了他们的问题,答案就在其中,一切简单明了

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And this is very much deliberate on our part so you just don't feel that inevitable angst when it comes to asking what you think is a dumb question and probably isn't, but you don't need to disclose your name.

这在我们的角度上来说是非常深思熟虑的,所以你们不要认为那是必然的麻烦,当问了一个你认为是愚蠢的问题,或者可能不是，但是你不必要,公开你的名字。

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That's a most ludicrous word, really, in contemporary social science or orthodox Marxist, where you just had to say, "Well, eventually the proletariat will rise up, because the bourgeoisie did this before."

在当代社会学领域或者正统马克思主义里,这是一个非常愚蠢的做法,就好像你只用说,"最终无产阶级会起义,是因为以前资产阶级就这么干过"

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And then there are some stupid syntax like curly braces and semicolons that initially are kind of annoying because you have to remember where all this junk goes.

还有一些像大括号和,分号之类的愚蠢语法,最初是很讨厌的,因为你需要记得它得放到哪里。

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Well, you could imagine a view like that, but it would be rather a silly view.

你当然可以那样想,不过那是一个相当愚蠢的看法

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