Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.
价格之重要，并不在于金钱是至高无上的。在零星分散的信息必须得以协调的巨型社会中，价格乃是快速而有效的信息传导。
These young guys are playing checkers. I’m out there playing chess.
废物只是我们尚未学会重视的资源。
采矿技术的创新将是该行业在下个世纪保持活力的关键。