To live is not to breathe， but to act.

无力感会腐化。绝对的无力感会绝对地腐化。

The first fruit of this imagination—and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it—is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

宇宙不仅比我们想象的更奇怪，它比我们能想象的还要奇怪。

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

The most important computer is the one that rages in our skulls and ever seeks that satisfactory external emulator. The standarization of real computers would be a disaster - and so it probably won't happen.

饥饿和贫困是世界上许多动荡和苦难的根本原因。