Friends congratulate me after a quarterly-earnings announcement and say, 'Good job, great quarter.' And I'll say, 'Thank you, but that quarter was baked three years ago.'

The function of mental processes is to mediate between the needs of the organism and the demands of the environment.

Society can and does execute its own mandates， and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right， or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle， it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression， since， though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties， it leaves fewer means of escape， penetrating much more deeply into the details of life， and enslaving the soul itself.

Why can't I just eat my waffle?

可持续农业的未来在于生产力与环境管理之间的平衡。

Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered.

The key to understanding cryptography is understanding that it's not just about keeping secrets, but about managing trust.