The study of algorithms is not just about solving problems, but about understanding the limits of what is computationally possible.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.

决定你生活中的主要明确目标，然后围绕它组织你所有的活动。