"It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism."

解释人类学的根本使命不是回答我们最深刻的问题，而是让我们能够接触到其他人在其他山谷中守护其他羊群时给出的答案，从而将这些答案纳入人类言论的可供查阅的记录中。

I’m not going to swim for anybody else. I’m swimming for me.

The interplay between randomness and structure is a central theme in both mathematics and computer science.

The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.