Now all we write about are these frickin’ things [picking up his iPhone]. And it only takes 15 years from where we are all laughing at something to ‘This is the foundation of how technology works.

而现在我们都在写着这些玩意儿（同时拿起了他的iPhone），距离我们都在嘲笑所谓‘新技术发挥作用的基础’时还不到15年。

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Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. No one's written your destiny for you, because here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future.

你的未来，并不取决于你现在的生活有多好或多坏。没有人为你编排好你的命运，在美国， 你的命运由你自己书写，你的未来由你自己掌握。

youdao

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. No one's written your destiny for you, because here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future.

你们目前的状况并不决定着你们的未来。没有人决定你们的命运，在美国，你们决定自己的命运。你们掌握自己的未来。

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And that sort of geared me up for a whole series of novels where I do tons of research, even though I write fiction, which is supposed to be made up,right?"

VOA: special.2009.10.12

My newspaper promoted me from Senior Staff Writer to Projects Editor and struck up a partnership with the UK's Guardian and Observer, where I write for the latter for half of every month.

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