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.

最好的反派是那些认为自己是他自己故事中的英雄的人。

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

出自汉·桓宽《盐铁论·疾贪》。欲，想。表，仪表，这句话指身体。下，指下属。先之身，先要求自己。要想影子正，就要先把自己的身子站直；要想下属清廉，自己要先做出表率。这句话以正影先正身为喻，说明正人先正己的道理。

The beauty of a well-designed algorithm lies in its simplicity and efficiency.