信息技术最大的好处是它赋予人们做他们想做的事情的能力。它让人们有创造力。它让人们有生产力。它让人们学习他们以前认为无法学习的东西,所以在某种意义上,它是关于潜力的。
"The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential."
Knowledge has value only insofar as it contributes to the liberation of humanity.
历史的终结将是一个非常悲伤的时刻。为纯粹抽象目标而奋斗、愿意冒生命危险的斗争,以及激发勇气、想象力、理想主义的全球意识形态斗争,将被经济计算、无休止的技术问题解决、环境关注和复杂消费需求的满足所取代。
The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.
"I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now, and live in it forever."