If you ask an economist what’s driven economic growth， it’s been major advances in things that mattered – the mechanization of farming， mass manufacturing， things like that. The problem is， our society is not organized around doing that.
如果你问一个经济学家，什么驱动着经济增长，他定会提出一些慎重的意见作为答复——农业机械化、大规模生产，诸如此类。但问题是，我们的社会组织不是靠这些事情建立起来的。
The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is a finite problem.
I believe that literature should be accessible to everyone.
我对黑暗感兴趣。如果你不走进黑暗，你永远看不到光明。
The fundamental principle of gestalt psychology is that the mind forms a global whole with self-organizing tendencies.
对复杂系统的研究告诉我们，简单的规则可以产生令人难以置信的复杂行为。
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.