国际体系的结构，而不是个别国家的意图，是国家行为的主要决定因素。

当人类心智在做计算机器的工作时，它很少感到满足，也肯定从未发挥其最高功能。

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

You have to figure out what your own aptitudes are. If you play games where other people have the aptitudes and you don’t, you’re going to lose. And that’s as close to certain as any prediction that you can make. You have to figure out where you’ve got an edge. And you’ve got to play within your own circle of competence.

你不需要走别人走过的路，也不需要承受同样的伤痕。

To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it.

国家本质上是侵略性和扩张主义的，因为它们存在于一个无政府状态的国际体系中，没有更高的权威来约束它们。