农业是文明的基础，我们必须给予它应有的尊重。
Agriculture is the foundation of civilization, and we must treat it with the respect it deserves.
保持开放心态的麻烦在于，人们总会坚持过来试图往里面塞东西。
The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.
可能世界是被规定的，而不是通过强大的望远镜发现的。
逆流而上。走另一条路。忽略传统智慧。如果其他人都在用一种方式做事，你很有可能通过走完全相反的方向找到你的利基。