In our business, you got to be inventing new things because software doesn't wear out, it doesn't break, or at least if it breaks it was broken when you finished it, it doesn't break over time the way physical goods do.

在我们行业，你需要不断发明新事物,因为软件并不会磨损，不会坏，或者至少如果坏了,也是在你运行完之后，它并不像物理上的东西会随着时间磨损。

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They do a contest--those of you who like to enter contests--saying, "how can we break out of this awful mess, oh, whatever can we do?"

曾有一个比赛,问参赛者们,"我们该如何化解当前窘境,我们到底该怎么办"

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And the commune, despite the fact that there's lots of-- you could hear in the distance the guns sometimes getting closer and closer, and attempts to break out fail miserably, they pass all sorts of impressive social legislation.

在公社里,尽管有很多...,公社不远处不时能听到枪声,不断逼近,而突围的尝试又屡次惨败,他们还通过了各式法律法规

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