Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.

通信的基本问题是在一点精确或近似地复现另一点选择的信息。

On haters: "If you never want to be criticized， for goodness' sake don't do anything new."

Every work of art is a confession.

唯一真正有价值的东西是直觉。