罗马大军入侵时，阿基米德的家遭士兵破门而入，他还在醉心研究圆形，后来他被士兵杀害。及后，杀阿基米德的士兵也被处决。

最好的投资是投那些能把小想法变成大生意的人。

Time is the best architect; it allows true architecture to settle.

未来的目标是完全失业，这样我们就可以玩了。

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.