小说是一面沿着大路携带的镜子。有时它向你展示天空的蓝色，有时则是路上搅动的泥泞。

No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Money is the motive.

The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.

统计学家不能推卸理清科学推断原理的责任，同样，任何其他思考者也不能避免类似的义务。