"I do not think a prolonged period of uncertainty is a good thing, that is why I want to arrive at a decision, we want to arrive at decision, as soon as possible."

VOA: standard.2010.05.10

But, you know why not do something a little special, little different, and they decided instead to use lithium.

但是你懂的，为什么不做的更特殊，更与众不同一些呢？

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Usually when you know why it's not working, it's obvious what you have to do to make it work.

通常你明白了出错的原因后，很明显你必须让程序正常运行起来。

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So, he writes: To the psychologist alone can such questions occur as: Why do we smile when pleased and not scowl?

他这样写到：,对哲学家本身说,会出现这些问题：,为什么开心时我们微笑而非皱眉？

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And then of course, once we figure out why not, we try and fix it. but today I'm going to emphasize not how do you fix it, but how do you find out what's wrong.

我们就会去尝试着修复程序，但是今天我强调的,并不是怎么去修复，而是怎么找出来错误原因。

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The first step to insight is to ask questions like why do things fall down and not up?

起初的洞察力是问问题,为什么物体坠地而不是上升？

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That's certainly one way to do it, but for computers that's not necessarily the easiest way. So another way of solving it is to do something we already saw last time, which is basically, why not simply enumerate all possible examples and check them?

将一个等式代入另一个等式，这当然是一种办法,但是对电脑来说这绝对不是一件简单的事,所以解决这个问题的办法，正如我们上一次看过的,非常基本？

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