The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

荣誉就像一座崎岖无滩的孤岛；一旦离开，就再也无法返回。

出自汉·桓宽《盐铁论·通有第三》这句话给了那些投机者很大的信心，他们会说：你看，老祖宗都说想要富你得靠脑子，凭力气是赚不到大钱的，想要得利你还得住在一个靠近市集的地方，当然，我也很是承认他说的对，脑子好使，又有一个地段很好的底商，怎么会不赚钱呢？其实你要仔细想一下，这就是一句废话，你有个好地段的底商，就是租出去，自己什么也不干，也有钱拿的！这个条件，我们大部分人都是没有的！意思是创造财富在于方法，不一定要靠体力获得。获取利百润的关键在于审时度势发现商机，不一定要亲自耕种获得。

从长远来看，经济前景是乐观的。

The essence of modernity is psychologism, the experiencing and interpretation of the world in terms of the reactions of our inner life and indeed as an inner world, the dissolution of fixed contents in the fluid element of the soul, from which all that is substantive is filtered and whose forms are merely forms of motion.

I don’t know why I love you. But I do.

"Understanding the limits of computation is as important as pushing its boundaries."

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.