The only way to deal with the complexity of the world is to simplify it.
The performance standard is 'Zero Defects'.
In auctions, the rules determine the outcome as much as the bidders' strategies.
新殖民地的建立者,无论他们最初可能设想出多么乌托邦的人类美德和幸福,都无一例外地在他们最早的实际需求中认识到,必须分配一部分处女地作为墓地,另一部分作为监狱的所在地。
Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well.