有什么方法可以解决刚才提到的这些焦虑呢？是有的。我想提出几项，先说“功绩主义”，也就是相信每个人的地位忠实呈现他的能力，我认为这种想法太疯狂了，我可以支持所有相信这个想法的，无论是左倾还是右倾的政治家，我同样相信功绩主义，但我认为一个完全彻底以能力取决地位的社会，是个不可能的梦想。
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.
The test of a good building is how it makes you feel when you're inside it.
把自己的精神，培养得清净明澈；把自己的思想，澄清专一；把自己的胆识，培养得深沉敏捷；把自己的气魄，培养得坚强宏大；把自己的才干，培养得果敢决断；把自己的器量，培养得端正庄重；把自己的胸襟，培养得豁达宽容；把自己的节操，培养得严肃冷峻。
"The past is a puzzle, and the historian is the person who tries to put the pieces together."
朗兰兹纲领是对探索数学未知领域的邀请。
战争的权利源于万国法，而万国法建立在全人类同意的基础上。