To be fair, Idea Man isn't just about Microsoft.

公平地说，《谋士》一书中并非只讲述了微软的故事。

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Idea Man: A Memoir by the Co-founder of Microsoft. By Paul Allen.

《谋士：微软共同创始人回忆录》 保罗•艾伦著。

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The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

有新想法的人在想法实现前是怪人。

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They tried to sell the idea that the old general was the only man who could defeat the candidate of the Democratic Party.

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And this is related to Yeats's idea that the poet and this is something he wrote about in the prose that the poet is more type than man.

这和叶芝关于诗人的观点,他在一篇散文里提到的,诗人更多是形象而不是个人。

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a little of that here with you today, to go over what Aristotle is suggesting in this idea of man, the polis animal.

我只能示范一些给你们看，要如何阅读亚里士多德所提示的概念,即人是城邦的动物。

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Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen made waves late last month when the Wall Street Journal published a preview of his new book, Idea Man, out next week.

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But Mauchly was an idea man, not a businessman.

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Dont expect to hear him admit to any of it, giggle, as his profound ego will never allow him to admit I was ever the idea woman, giving the idea man golden ideas giggle.

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