We are all prisoners of our own minds.
科学史上充满了这样的例子：将两组技术、两组思想，在追求新真理的过程中相互接触，会带来丰硕的成果。
我不需要努力变得与众不同；我就是与众不同。
I don't like to do easy things. I like to do things that are challenging and that push me.
世界充满了符号，作家的职责就是解读它们。
Nothing that you remember has survived. Better to forget.
理论计算机科学中的挑战不仅仅是解决问题，而是理解问题解决的本质。
The greatest predictor of a novel's quality is the novelist's willingness to confront the unlovely truth about himself or herself.