The concept of progress is inseparable from the concept of catastrophe.

人工智能的真正挑战不仅仅是构建智能机器，而是构建能够学习和适应的机器。

A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it. But it is true to say that you are open to all the winds, some of them icy indeed. You are out on your own, out on a limb. You find no shelter, no protection — unless you lie — in which case of course you have constructed your own protection and, it could be argued, become a politician.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do—we do it all the time.