And that's a lot of the reason why we care so much about our careers and indeed start caring so much about material goods. You know, we're often told that we live in very materialistic times, that we're all greedy people. I don't think we are particularly materialistic. I think we live in a society which has simply pegged certain emotional rewards to the acquisition of material goods. It's not the material goods we want;
这就是为什么我们如此在乎事业和成就,以及看重金钱和物质的原因。我们时常被告知我们处在一个物质挂帅的时代,我们都是贪婪的人。我并不认为我们特别看重物质,而是活在一个物质能带来大量情感反馈的时代。
你可以非常爱一个人……但你永远无法像想念他们那样爱他们。
I'm not a word, I'm a noise.
世界是一团伟大的火焰,我们是其中的火花。
每一本书都是通往另一个世界的门。
God's in his heaven—All's right with the world!
不可预测性是创造力蓬勃发展的土壤。