The problem is, if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you'll also, by implication, and in a far more nasty way, believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there. I nother words, your position in life comes to seem not accidental, but merited and deserved. And that makes failure seem much more crushing.

The essence of computational complexity is to understand the limits of what can be computed efficiently.

人们之所以加入社会是为了保护他们的财产。

"Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language."