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.

最深刻的技术是那些消失的技术。它们将自己编织进日常生活的结构中，直到与生活无法区分。

【译文】 孔子说：“君子团结群众而不拉帮结派，小人拉帮结派而不团结群众。”

有机体本质上是对环境刺激的被动反应者。

Innovation is not just about technology; it's about people and processes working seamlessly together.

事实是我是个真正的完美主义者，这让我自己抓狂。

The whites came to this land for a fresh start and to escape the tyranny of their masters, just as the freemen had fled theirs. But the ideals they held up for themselves, they denied others.