A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn’t even know existed can render your own computer unusable.

"In literature, we find the truth of our own existence."

The ocean is not just a resource; it is our future.

"Memory is a strange thing. It doesn't work like I thought it did. We are so bound by time, by its order."

小说是人类经验最完整的呈现。