"To write is to bear witness to the human condition."
The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.
我意识中隐隐地感觉,我们都坐在原地等着某个可怕的事件发生,然后我才记起它已经发生过了。
In the world of computing, the boundary between the possible and the impossible is often defined by the algorithms we can devise.
Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost.