It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you’ve made, and there’s this panic because you don’t know yet the scale of disaster you’ve left yourself open to.

The most important political development of the last two centuries has been the rise of the modern state.

成功的衡量标准不仅是利润，还有我们创造的积极影响。

数学的本质在于它的自由。

每个词都承载着所有未被说出的词的重量。

And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.