"Books are the mirrors that show us who we are."

The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.

To understand mathematics is to speak the language of the universe.

独裁和真正的文学是不相容的。作家是独裁的天敌。

The value chain is the set of activities through which a product or service is created and delivered to customers.