I don’t like to be told what I am.
The future city will be a ruin from the beginning.
So given a Time Turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone’s total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.
我热爱竞争。我喜欢挑战自己。
幽默只是对抗宇宙的另一种防御机制。
The world is like a chessboard, whereon we may see a living knight, but we cannot see a living chess.