Life has no meaning a priori. It is up to you to give it a meaning.
A story is never just a story; it is a piece of the human experience.
To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.
She's simply too strange. We can't relate to her, she speaks in a funny way, she comes from an odd place. So we can't relate to her, and when you can't relate to somebody, you don't envy them. The closer two people are -- in age, in background, in the process of identification -- the more there's a danger of envy, which is incidentally why none of you should ever go to a school reunion, because there is no stronger reference point than people one was at school with.
I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out the effect on society.
文学是对剥夺感的表达，是对缺失感的补救。
Innovation is not just about new products; it's about rethinking how we live and work.