Legal rules are not merely commands backed by threats; they are also rules that confer powers and create obligations.

To collect is to gather things to yourself, to take things from the world and make them part of your own story.

The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.

市场设计是一个持续的实验——今天有效的明天可能就需要调整。

The best ideas come from not knowing the answer.

发现的艺术不在于找到新大陆，而在于用新的眼光去看。

历史是一个我正试图从中醒来的噩梦。

I think people believe in heaven because they don’t like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don’t like the idea that other people will move into their house and put their things into the rubbish.