I think it would be a disaster. The extraterrestrials would probably be far in advance of us. The history of advanced races meeting more primitive people on this planet is not very happy, and they were the same species. I think we should keep our heads low.
我想那会是一场灾难。外星生命很可能遥遥领先于我们。在我们所处的星球上,先进种族遭遇较为原始人类的历史是不幸的,虽然他们属于同一物种。我觉得我们应当保持低调。
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it.
问题是,如果你打从心里相信,那些在社会顶层的人都是精英,同时你也暗示着,以一种残忍的方法,相信那些在社会底层的人,天生就该在社会底层,换句话说,你在社会的地位不是偶然,而都是你配得的,这种想法让失败变得更残忍。
最强大的动力不是金钱。而是学习的机会、责任的成长、对他人的贡献以及因成就而获得认可。