历史是记忆的不完美与文献的不足相遇时产生的确定性。

灵魂是一种通过所有感官发射其光芒的火焰；存在就在于这火焰之中。

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

"I don't think that literature should be a moral institution."

翻译：如果士卒还未真心拥护就施加刑罚，他们就不服，不服就难以使用；如果士卒已经真心拥护了还不施加刑罚，也不可用。

艺术不是反映现实的镜子，而是塑造现实的锤子。

"The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential."

我从未见过一个我不试图用机械方法解决的问题。