notes there are now work-stations that enable engineers to design, test and produce chips right on their desks, much the way an editor creates a newsletter on a Macintosh.

注意到，现在有些计算机工作站使工程技术人员可以在他们的办公桌上设计、试验和生产芯片，就像一位编辑在苹果机上编出一份时事通讯一样。

and beyond six or seven they are worthless.

如果超过六七天，天气预报就没有了任何价值。

Now the snag in this sort of anecdote is of course that one cannot distinguish cause and effect.

这类奇闻的疑难之处是无法区别因果关系。

but although our faith in many of the things in which our forefathers fervently believed has weakened,

可是虽然我们对我们祖先笃信的许多事物已不太相信，

If our educational system were fashioned after its bookless past we would have the most democratic form of 'college'imaginable.

如果我们的教育制度仿效没有书籍的古代教育，我们的学院将具有可以想像得出的最民主的形式了。

Waves are the children of the struggle between ocean and atmosphere.

海浪是大海和空气相斗的产物。