Form follows function - but sometimes function follows form.

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

我认为孩子们天生好奇，对新想法持开放态度，这是我在书中试图捕捉的东西。

生物普遍存在的生存斗争不是为了原材料——这些对生物来说是充足的——也不是为了能量，能量以热的形式在任何物体中都大量存在，而是为了熵，熵是通过能量从炽热的太阳转移到寒冷的地球而变得可用的。

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed;never throw out anyone.

一切都在流动，一切都在变化，没有永恒不变的东西。