It is sometimes better to say nothing than to speak.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

Nothing better shows our heavenly origins, our divine seed, our human intellect, those holy traces of Promethean fire."

没有什么能更好的讲述我们的起源，我们的子孙，我们人类的智力，生命之火神圣的踪迹“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And he says: Well that's better than nothing.

他说“有一样总比什么都没有好“

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But he said the compromise was better than nothing.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

Well that's better then nothing, but again, there's error built into that.

那总比没有强,但需要强调,这个方式也有漏洞

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

And there is no programming language that is better well actually, that's not quite true, there are some better at doing certain kinds of things but there's nothing that you can do in C that you can't do in Fortran.

没有一种编程语言是更优秀的,当然实际上，这并不是完全对的，在做某些事儿时一些语言会更好用,但是没有事情是你能在C语言中做,而不能在Fortran中做的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选