Well, the first rule is that you can’t really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang ’em back. If the facts don’t hang together on a latticework of theory, you don’t have them in a usable form.

When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions， a few of which I had thought about， some of which I had sort of stumbled on， and many that I had no control over whatsoever.

人类的选择在于自由和幸福之间，而对于大多数人来说，幸福更好。