"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."

穷人不是不想储蓄，而是没有能力储蓄。

The major problems in biology are not solved by new techniques, but by new ideas.

互联网正在成为明日地球村的广场。

Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.