处理世界复杂性的唯一方法是简化它。
The only way to deal with the complexity of the world is to simplify it.
财富不在于拥有很多钱，而在于拥有很多选择。
I believe that the job of the novelist is to go out into the world and to bring back news of the human condition.
The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given nature, but result from the social process which creates man.
The beauty of computational theory lies in its ability to abstract the complexities of the world into manageable and understandable models.
为了如今仰望太空，注视月球和遥看繁星的人们，我们发誓，我们决不允许太空被那些敌对国家（原文为旗帜）所征服，我们会看到自由与和平的旗帜在飘扬。（1962年我们选择登月演说）