The act of writing is an act of defiance.

If oxen and horses and lions had hands and could paint with their hands and produce works of art as men do, horses would paint the forms of the gods like horses, and oxen like oxen, and they would make their bodies in accordance with the form that each species itself possesses.

Blackness is not a monolith; it's a multiplicity.

The challenge of modern cryptography is not just to protect information, but to do so in a way that is both efficient and scalable.

杰夫·贝索斯接受了莱克斯·弗里德曼的播客采访

有些人不喜欢改变，但如果替代方案是灾难，你就需要拥抱变化。

灵魂是身体的监狱。

小说的最终考验是你是否如此关心这些人以至于你想知道他们接下来会发生什么。