Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.

每本小说都是一次未知的旅程，即使对写它的人来说也是如此。

La belleza de la poesía reside en su capacidad de transformar lo ordinario en extraordinario.

在科技行业立足的筹码不再仅仅是伟大的产品，还包括伟大的价值观。

Innovation is not just about creating something new; it's about making what exists work better.

"In the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take."