小说是捕捉人类状况的最雄心勃勃的尝试。

芯片虽小，却是现代工业的粮食，不能受制于人。

Collaboration is key in scientific discovery; no one can do it alone.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, revived, reclaimed and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become.