世界上主要有两类人。第一类人有所成就，第二类人号称自己有所成就。第一类人不如第二类人那么多。

The Soviet man was a man who was always waiting—for rations, for orders, for the end.

经济历史的研究不仅仅是关于过去；它是关于理解当前不平等的根源。

We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.