我记得我的朋友约翰尼·冯·诺伊曼曾经说过,“用四个参数我可以拟合一头大象,用五个我可以让它摆动它的鼻子。”
I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, 'with four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.'
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
我们这年代的人读书太多而不聪明,想得太多而不美丽。
文学是一种抵抗的形式,一种对压迫和不公说不的方式。
To write is to resist—to resist forgetting, to resist oppression, to resist the erasure of memory.
I don't let the world change my heart.
The past is never dead; it is not even past.