Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation.
所有的经典都说到,为了获得解脱,人应该让心智安静;所以它们的最终教导就是心智应该被安静下来;一旦理解了这一点,就不需要没完没了地阅读经典了。
The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.
We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.