The goal is not just to design a market, but to design one that works well in practice.

人的喜怒哀乐的感情没有表现出来，叫做中；表现出来合乎法度，叫做和。达到中和，天地就各居自己的位置，万物也就生长了。

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

计算机科学中最强大的工具不是计算机本身，而是人类的思维。