小说是生成意义的机器。

The opening up of new markets, foreign or domestic, and the organizational development from the craft shop and factory to such concerns as U.S. Steel illustrate the same process of industrial mutation—if I may use that biological term—that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one.

You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

所以富贵的人极其奢侈，二孤儿寡妇却受饥挨饿，虽然想天下不乱，也不可能。国君若真的希望天下太平而不希望天下大乱的话，如果要吃喝，就不能不节俭。 

The computer revolution hasn't started yet.

不平等的代价不仅由处于劣势的人承担，而是由整个社会承担。