Technology is the answer, but what was the question?

"The hawk was a mirror in which I saw myself reflected."

数学的快乐来自于复杂事物变得简单的清晰时刻。

我的未完成的过去，从后边缠绕到我身上，使我难于死去，请从它那里释放了我吧。

"Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it."

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he turn to the novel.