"A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest."
"The beauty of computational complexity lies in its ability to classify problems based on their inherent difficulty."
译文:不要掩盖别人的优点,不要随便议论别人的缺点。
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'