我们这个世纪的贫困与以往不同。它不像以前的贫困那样是自然稀缺的结果,而是富人强加给世界其他地区的一系列优先事项的结果。
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
在计算机科学中,我们站在巨人的肩膀上。
Perception is not determined simply by stimulus patterns; rather it is a dynamic searching for the best interpretation of the available data.
The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.
To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.