How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life.

最重要的计算机是在我们的头骨上狂奔并且一直在寻找那种令人满意的外部仿真器的计算机。真实计算机的标准化将是一场灾难-因此可能不会发生。

你不必成为数学家也能对数字有感觉。

声音是神圣的乐器，我们必须明智地使用它。

建筑是一种视觉艺术，建筑物自己会说话。

黑暗修复了光明修不了的东西。

The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.

Consciousness is the theater where the drama of adaptation is played out.

量子计算的挑战不仅在于建造量子计算机，还在于理解它能做什么。