"Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out."
书籍就像一面镜子。如果一头驴子往里看,你不能指望一个天使会往外看。
The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
多样性不仅仅是代表性问题,而是创造一个不同观点可以蓬勃发展的环境。
People are curious. A few people are. They will be driven to find things out, even trivial things. They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken.