The uncontrollability of gunpowder teaches me to accept imperfection. 火药的不可控性教会我接受不完美。

If you ask an economist what’s driven economic growth, it’s been major advances in things that mattered – the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

"History is not the past—it is the method we have evolved of organizing our ignorance of the past."

互联网应该是一个赋权的工具，而不是控制的工具。

我相信讲故事的力量。

That “democracy” is a somewhat vague term which I cannot define precisely. We ought to say, therefore: “I am fairly certain that it is a good thing if a government has something of the characteristics that are common to the British and American Constitutions,” or something of this sort.