你必须先对自己有所期望，然后才能做到。

如果你不顽强，你就会过早放弃试验。如果你不灵活，你就会以头撞墙，而不会找到解决问题的不同办法。

The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.

每个人的生命都是一座档案库。

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.