The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.

小说是一面照向社会的镜子，反映了它的缺陷和美丽。

技术应该服务于可持续性，而不仅仅是利润。

穷人并不懒惰；他们只是被困在一个让他们很难摆脱贫困的系统中。