That's exhilarating if you're doing well, and very crushing if you're not. It leads, in the worst cases -- in the analysis of a sociologist like Emil Durkheim -- it leads to increased rates of suicide. There are more suicides in developed, individualistic countries than in any other part of the world. And some of the reason for that is that people take what happens to them extremely personally -- they own their success, but they also own their failure.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

程序最重要的属性是它是否实现了用户的意图。

科学在开放和合作的环境中蓬勃发展。

The robustness of topological states against local perturbations is a testament to the power of topology in protecting quantum information.