精神生活是一系列适应性的实验。

The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values. And which values? Even when they do not panic, men often sense that older ways of feeling and thinking have collapsed and that newer beginnings are ambiguous to the point of moral stasis.

I said, 'I will build you this incredible, gorgeous, gleaming hotel. I will put people to work in the construction trades and save hotel jobs and the Grand Central area will come around.' So the city made the deal.

The best way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

社会无法发展出有效、低成本的合同执行机制，是历史上停滞和当代第三世界欠发达的最重要根源。

If you hate yourself, you will hate others. If you cannot love yourself, you cannot love others.