"阿拉伯小说正在经历它最辉煌也最痛苦的时期。"

想像力比知识更重要。因为知识是有限的，而想像力是无限,它包含了一切,推动着进步,是人类进化的源泉。

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.

唯一比外星人更让我害怕的是没有外星人。我们不能是创造物中最好的。我祈祷我们不是全部。如果是这样，我们就麻烦大了。

西方赢得了世界，并不是因为其思想、价值观或宗教的优越性，而是因为在应用有组织的暴力方面的优势。

密码学的艺术是使破解系统的成本超过受保护信息的价值。

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.