被视为行为系统的人类其实相当简单。我们行为表面上的复杂性很大程度上反映了我们所处环境的复杂性。
Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
诗人就是那些花多年时间耐心探索内心第二个自我的人。
Reality is not only stranger than we suppose, but stranger than we can suppose.
