Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've lost focus.
The mathematics of the universe is written in the language of geometry.
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know life is a complex matter.
Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.
世界上充满了显而易见的事情,却没有人注意到。