掌着舵，睁着眼，但是当某种灾难临头之前，竟什么也看不到，——这不能算是领导。
——一九二八年四月十三日斯大林在联共(布)莫斯科组织的积极分子会议上所作的报告《关于中央委员会和中央监察委员会四月联席全会的工作》
The integration of technology and infrastructure is unstoppable.
艺术是无法言说之物的语言。
Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.
预测未来的最好方法就是发明它。