"History is not the past. It is the method we have evolved of organizing our ignorance of the past."
历史不是过去。它是我们进化出来的组织我们对过去无知的方法。
The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.
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.
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.
在我们视野所及中，人类存在的唯一目的，是在纯粹存在的黑暗中燃起一点光亮。