Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.

现代就是与传统不断对话。

Stay true to yourself, yet always be open to learn.

希望不是一种感觉；它是一种可行的事情。

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

The most valuable resource in agriculture isn't land or water—it's knowledge.