Writing is a way of escaping from the world, but also a way of embracing it.

Well, the first rule is that you can’t really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang ’em back. If the facts don’t hang together on a latticework of theory, you don’t have them in a usable form.

意识服务于有机体有效与世界互动的需求。

The world is built upon the power of numbers.