If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic—being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

美是真理的影子。

长期来看，只有真正创造价值的人才能生存。

文学的美在于它让我们在一生中活过千次。

乐观主义者倾向于将他们的麻烦解释为暂时的、可控的和特定于一种情况的。另一方面，悲观主义者认为他们的麻烦会永远存在，破坏他们所做的一切，并且无法控制。