"In the end, we are all just stories."
最终，我们都只是故事。
语言是思想的皮肤。
发明的进步使人类拥有了世纪前最大胆的想象也无法梦见的力量。
"It's not generally realized that all writers, even the greatest, are also readers first and last."
Regulatory frameworks should incentivize progress, not just penalize the past.
"Memory is a strange thing, it doesn't work like a camera or a tape recorder, it reconstructs things, it edits the past with the scissors of the present."
出自北齐·颜之推《颜氏家训·教子》引谚语。教育媳妇，要趁她刚嫁到婆家之时；教育孩子，应当赶在孩提时代，教育要掌握最适宜的时间才会有效果。
以这样奢侈的国君，去统治那些爱好奢侈的臣民，想要国家不动乱，是不可能的。