小说是一个伟大的发现：远比伽利略的望远镜或别人的无线电报更伟大。小说是人类迄今为止达到的最高表达形式。为什么？因为它是如此无法达到绝对。
The novel is a great discovery: far greater than Galileo's telescope or somebody else's wireless. The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.
There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other.
The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.
真理不在光明中，而在我们不敢直视的阴影里。
"Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith first, the trust part comes later."
To understand computation is to understand the language of the universe, for it is through computation that we model and predict the natural world.