"A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. So the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion."

Psychology should illuminate how we cope with our environment.

所有人都存在危险。自由政府的唯一准则应该是不要信任任何拥有权力的人，以免危及公共自由。

曾经尝试过，曾经失败过。没关系。再试一次。再失败一次。失败得更好。

监狱里的高墙实在是很有趣。刚入狱的时候，你痛恨周围的高墙；慢慢地，你习惯了生活在其中；最终你会发现自己不得不依靠它而生存。这就是体制化。

Writing is a way of speaking without being interrupted.

"The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it."

Every project is a new adventure, a new challenge.

The holographic principle suggests that the information content of a region of space can be encoded on its boundary, much like a hologram.