By the way, Bill Joy's birth date? November 8, 1954.
比爾.喬伊:1954年11月8日
Joy would go on, after he stint at Berkeley, to become one of four founders of Sun Microsystems,
最終,在度過艱苦的伯克利歲月之后,喬伊成為太陽微系統公司四個創始人中的一人
one of the oldest and most important of Silicon Valley's software companies.
太陽微系統公司是硅谷最悠久最有實力的軟件公司之一。
And if you still think that accidents of time and place and birth don't matter all that much,
假如你認為這些時間、地點、出生的巧合無關緊要,
here are the birth dates of the three other founders of Sun Microsystems:
那么,就再看看太陽微系統公司其他三個創始人的出生日期:
Scott McNealy: November 13, 1954.
斯科特.麥克尼利:1954年11月13日。
Vinod Khosla: January 28, 1955.
維諾德.克什拉:1955年1月28日。
Andy Bechtolsheim: September 30, 1955.
安迪.貝托爾斯梅姆:1955年9月30日。
Chapter 3 The Trouble with Geniuses. Part 1.
第三章 天才的煩惱 第一部分
"Knowledge of a boy's IQ is of little help if you are faced with a formful clever boys."
如果你遇到的是一個真正聰明的小孩,那就完全沒必要知道她的IQ是多少。
In the fifth episode of the 2008 season, the American television quiz show 1 vs. 100 had as its special guest a man named Christopher Langan.
2008年度的美國電視真人秀節目《以一敵百》(1 Vs. 100), 在第五次節目請來了一位特殊嘉賓,他的名字叫克里斯托弗?蘭根。
1 vs. 100 is one of the many television shows that sprang up in the wake of the phenomenon success of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
和其他很多電視真人秀節目一樣,《以一敵百》也利用“誰想成為百萬富翁”這個念頭吊起觀眾胃口,提升收視率
It features a permanent gallery of one hundred ordinary people who serve as what is called the "mob".
節目的 規則是組織100個普通人,扮演所謂的“挑戰者”(Mob),
Each week they match wits with a special invited guest.
這些“挑戰者”每星期都要和一位特殊的嘉賓挑戰智力,
At stake is a million dollars.
獲勝者即可獲得百萬美元的獎金。
The guest has to be smart enough to answer more questions correctly than his or her one hundred adversaries,
受邀請嘉賓的智力足以應對100個普通人的挑戰
and by that standard, few have ever seemed as superbly qualified as Christopher Langan.
按照這個標準,在所有的嘉賓中很難再找到比克里斯托弗?蘭根更具備這種資格的人了
"Tonight the mob takes on their fiercest competition yet," the voice-over begin.
“今晚,我們的挑戰依舊面臨著激烈的競爭,”電視里面響起了主持人的旁白,
"Meet Christ Langan, who many called the smartest man in the America."
“有請克里斯.蘭根,美國最聰明的人。”
The camera did a slow pan of a stocky, muscular man in his fifties.
出現在攝像機鏡頭里的,是一個健壯結實、肌肉發達的50多歲的男子。