书籍是我们与逝者沟通的方式。是我们从那些不再与我们同在的人那里学习教训的方式，人类以此为基础，取得进步，使知识逐渐积累，而不是一次又一次地重新学习。
"Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us, that humanity has built on itself, progressed, made knowledge incremental rather than something that has to be relearned, over and over."
系统生产需求的速度比满足需求的速度更快，因此它自我延续。
在数学中，真理不是通过共识而是通过证明来发现的。
I’m not a guy that’s going to let my love for the present down.
煤炭开采的创新不仅仅是技术问题，更是思维方式的转变。