我们都是自己过去的幽灵，徘徊在我们曾经熟悉的地方。
"We are all ghosts of our former selves, haunting the places we once knew."
The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.
The novel is a machine for generating meaning.
The future of coal depends on our ability to innovate and reduce its environmental impact.
——2003年10月13日在联合国国际电信联盟(ITU)大会上发言
"You can't win if you don't play."
