最后，她用她最好岁月里的精妙口才，对一直以来与她保持着某种庸俗默契的儿媳道出了心里话：“一个世纪前，人们毁掉了我和这个可怜男人的生活，因为我们太年轻；现在，他们又想在我们身上故技重施，因为我们太老了。”她用烟蒂点燃另一支香烟，将侵蚀着她五脏六腑的毒气彻底呼出体外。

加西亚·马尔克斯

法律制度的完善需要理论与实践的结合。

高其才

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

精神错乱：一遍又一遍地重复作同一件事，而期待会有不同的结果。

爱因斯坦

Your smarts will come in handy because you will travel in a land of marvels. We humans -- plodding as we are -- will astonish ourselves. We'll invent ways to generate clean energy and a lot of it. Atom by atom， we'll assemble tiny machines that will enter cell walls and make repairs. This month comes the extraordinary but also inevitable news that we've synthesized life. In the coming years， we'll not only synthesize it， but we'll engineer it to specifications. I believe you'll even see us understand the human brain. Jules Verne， Mark Twain， Galileo， Newton -- all the curious from the ages would have wanted to be alive most of all right now. As a civilization， we will have so many gifts， just as you as individuals have so many individual gifts as you sit before me.

你们的聪明才智必定会派上用场，因为你们将在一片充满奇迹的土地上行进。我们人类，尽管跬步前行，却终将令自己大吃一惊。我们能够想方设法制造清洁能源，也能够一个原子一个原子地组装微型机械，使之穿过细胞壁，然后修复细胞。这个月，有一个异常而不可避免的事情发生了——人类终于合成了生命。在未来几年，我们不仅会合成生命，还会按说明书驱动它们。我相信你们甚至会看到我们理解人类的大脑，儒勒·凡尔纳，马克·吐温，伽利略，牛顿——所有那些充满好奇之心的人都希望能够活到现在。作为文明人，我们会拥有如此之多的天赋，就像是坐在我面前的你们，每一个生命个体都拥有许多独特的天赋。