The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.

And the thing about a successful life is that a lot of the time, our ideas of what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. They're sucked in from other people; chiefly, if you're a man, your father, and if you're a woman, your mother. Psychoanalysis has been drumming home this message for about 80 years. No one's quite listening hard enough, but I very much believe it's true.

A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees would face a future with even less hope.

偏见是愚人用来代替理智的东西。