Every truth goes through three stages: first, it is ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed; third, it is accepted as self-evident.

The truth is, we are all barbarians.

写作是一种思考方式，而不仅仅是思想的记录。

"The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding."

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.