现代国家的特点是其能够有效地集中和使用权力。
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.
Innovation is not just about technology, it's about changing people's lives.
This is true: It’s hard to cheat an honest man.