So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

I think it would be a disaster. The extraterrestrials would probably be far in advance of us. The history of advanced races meeting more primitive people on this planet is not very happy, and they were the same species. I think we should keep our heads low.

世界上充满了神奇的事物，耐心地等待着我们的感官变得更加敏锐。

No society can surely be flourishing and happy， of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

智者不会武断地肯定任何事情，甚至不会断言智者一无所知。