"The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true."
作家必须相信他所做的是世界上最重要的事情。即使他知道这不是真的，他也必须坚持这种幻觉。
历史总是由胜利者书写。当两种文化冲突时，失败者会被抹去，而胜利者则书写历史书籍——这些书籍美化他们的事业，贬低被征服的敌人。
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.
Consciousness is not a thing, but a dynamic flow of adaptive responses.