每部小说都是举向社会面孔的一面镜子——有时它映照出美好，更多时候它显示出我们试图忽视的裂痕。
"Every novel is a mirror held up to society's face - sometimes it reflects beauty, more often it shows the cracks we try to ignore."
The ability to create and sustain large, complex organizations is one of the key factors that distinguish successful societies from unsuccessful ones.
The core of large-scale farming is standardization, and the prerequisite for standardization is scientization.