The only obsession everyone wants: ‘love.’ People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you’re whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You’re whole, and then you’re cracked open.

The challenge of quantum computing is not just in building the hardware, but in understanding the new algorithms that can take advantage of it.

智力不仅仅是推理的能力；它还包括在记忆中寻找相关材料并在需要时调动注意力的能力。

But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep - into evil.

作家必须甘于被挑战。

The measure of a good book is whether it makes you think, feel, and see the world differently.