'Jeff, what does Day 2 look like?' 'Day 2 is stasis. Followed by irrelevance. Followed by excruciating, painful decline. Followed by death. And that is why it is always Day 1.' To be sure, this kind of decline would happen in extreme slow motion. An established company might harvest Day 2 for decades, but the final result would still come.
‘杰夫,第二天是什么样子的?’‘第二天是停滞。然后是无关紧要。然后是痛苦的衰退。然后是死亡。这就是为什么我们总是在第一天。’确实,这种衰退会以极其缓慢的速度发生。一个成熟的公司可能会收割第二天几十年,但最终结果仍然会到来。
"The beauty of literature is that it allows us to live a thousand lives in the span of one."
人们不禁会感到这些数学公式拥有独立的存在和自己的智慧,它们比我们更聪明,甚至比它们的发现者更聪明。
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.