The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.

技术和传统必须携手并进。过去的智慧可以指导未来的创新。

The first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.

"I write for kids because I was a kid who needed books."

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.