The mass media are anti-mediatory and intransitive. They fabricate non-communication—this is what characterizes them, if one agrees to define communication as an exchange, as a reciprocal space of a speech and a response, and thus of a responsibility.

科学严谨性绝不能因商业压力而妥协。

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

译文：贫穷的人不用学俭朴，自会俭朴，卑贱的人不用学谦恭，自会谦恭。

Consolidation is inevitable in the shale industry.

质量不是偶然；它是一种决定。