"He possesses a quality that I value in all my advisors: a willingness to tell leaders what we need to know, even if it is not what we want to hear."

VOA: standard.2010.06.05

If I know about the states involved, I just need to know what the volume was in each of them.

我们并不需要知道一条特定过程的路径，如果我们知道所涉及的态,我仅仅需要知道这些态的体积。

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If I can't, I want to knock him back, because what I really need to do is to get him out of the way.

如果杀不了,我就要把他击退,因为我真正的目的是把他从这条线路上推开

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Computing square root. I'm going to capture it in a piece of code, I'm going to be able to refer to it by a name, and I'm going to suppress the details, meaning inside of that computation, you don't need to know what it does. You just need to know, if I give it the right kind of input, it'll give me back an input that satisfies the contract that I set up.

比如计算平方根,我会用一段代码来说明,我将给它命名,并且忽略细节,意思就是在这一段计算过程中,你不用知道它做了什么，你只需知道，如果我进行了正确的输入,它将会给我符合条件的输出。

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