The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.

The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

我们都会死去，所有人，多么荒谬！这种孤独的事实应该让我们彼此相爱可是并没有。我们在琐事中变得恐惧平庸，我们被虚无啃噬。

To write at all is to hope.

In the dance of computation, every step, every decision, is a reflection of the underlying principles that govern the digital universe.