灵魂的自然状态是和谐、美丽和善良。

计算的未来在云端，云端就是计算的未来。

Le génie est comme l'or: il faut le faire sortir de la mine.

Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.

A good novel should be both a mirror and a window.

我写作是为了体验那些未曾经历的人生。

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.