世界是如此不可预测。事情突然发生,出乎意料。我们想要感觉我们能掌控自己的存在。在某些方面我们是,在某些方面我们不是。我们被偶然和巧合的力量所支配。
The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.
最好的市场设计是那些能减少参与者不确定性的设计。
部署程序的最好方法是部署它。
To lose a language is to lose a way of seeing the world.
A writer must be stubborn, must have a vocation of sacrifice, and must accept that literature is a very cruel mistress.
The novel is the great art form of the inner life.