"The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion."

The best way to understand something is to try to change it.

在每个大型程序内部，都有一个试图挣脱出来的小程序。

To write is to bear witness to the world's beauty and cruelty.

最重要的是保持开放的心态。

The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease.

我确信宇宙中充满了智慧生命。只是它们太聪明了，不会来这里。

民族主义第六讲