历史学家的任务是理解过去,而小说家的任务是让它活过来。
The historian’s task is to understand the past, the novelist’s to make it live.
The poet's duty is to illuminate the darkness.
自动机和形式语言的研究对于理解计算的极限是基础性的。
The more we try to control the world, the more it slips through our fingers.