Why do smart people do dumb things?

聪明人为什么会做傻事？

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Reps will say dumb things like, "half your advertising works and half doesn't — and you'll never know which half." Rubbish.

销售代表只会讲那些毫无作用的话，譬如，“你一半的广告收到了成效，还有一半没什么效果——但你无法知道到底是哪一半。”真是废话。

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I knew I matured when I realized not every situation deserves a reaction. Sometimes you just gotta leave people to do the dumb things they want to do.

当我意识到不是每遇到一个事情都需要回应时，我知道我成熟了。有时候，你就是需要让别人去做那些他们想做的蠢事。

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As a virginal orator, should she choose to unleash her powers, she would have the power of an Orpheus moving dumb things to sympathize -- Orpheus being one of Milton's most prized mythological figures of the powerful poet.

作为一名处女演说家，如果她选择释放自己的力量，她应该会有像俄耳甫斯一样的力量,使哑的东西也受到感动而有同情心,俄耳甫斯是弥尔顿最为称赞的有权利的神话传说诗人。

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Spelling. These are just dumb little things to look for. Did you spell all the identifiers the way you think you did. The problem is, when you read code you see what you expect to see.

拼写错误，你可能得找找这些粗心的小错误,你是否拼对了标识符,问题是当你阅读代码的时候,你看到的都是你以为的。

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And because he stopped doing dumb things for Gary, I stopped doing dumb things for him.

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In the 1980s a lot of smart people said very dumb things about Japanese dominance.

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