Mead predicts that inventors will be able to perfect powerful customized chips over a weekend at the office -- spawning a new generation of garage start-ups and giving the U.S.a jump on its foreign rivals in getting new products to market fast.

米德预言发明者可以在办公室用一个周末的时间生产了完美的、功能很强的、按客户需求设计的芯片 -- 造就新一代从汽车间起家的技术人员，在把产品推向市场方面使美国把它的外国对手们打个措手不及。

By 12.01, those fluctuations will already have created small errors one foot away.

到12∶01时，那些波动就已经会在1英尺远的地方造成偏差。

and because there is so much of it the function would seem to e important.

睡眠占去那么多时间，所以其作用似乎还是很重要。

Many more people are 'form-blind' than colour-blind.

形盲的人数比色盲的人数要多得多。

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。

that the talent goes into the first draft, and the art into the drafts that follow.

他说，初稿是才华，以后各稿是艺术。