Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.
Adaptability is the most valuable trait in an ever-changing global market.
The complexity of viruses reminds us how much we still have to learn about biology.
人类的灵魂是一片黑暗而广阔的森林,里面充满了野性的生命。
创造不是来自智力,而是来自源于内在需要的游戏本能。创造性头脑与它所钟爱的对象玩耍。