翻译：日月顺行天道而能永久照耀天下，四季往复变化而能永久生成万物，圣人永久保持

There's a politics to how materials are used.

You get towards the end of life—no, not life itself, but of something else: the end of any likelihood of change in that life.

"Identity is a story we tell ourselves, and sometimes we have to rewrite it."

应当通过具体事物探究规律，不可先设定规律来限制事物。

The true power of an algorithm is not in its speed or efficiency, but in its ability to reveal the hidden structures of the problems it addresses.

When farmers prosper, communities thrive; when agriculture struggles, societies feel the pain.