——在南京中国同盟会会员饯别会演说，1912年4月1日

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

我们都是小虫。但我是发着光的小虫。

我确信宇宙中充满了智慧生命。只是它们太聪明了，不会来这里。

The magical thing about this network is not just that it collapses distance and makes everyone your neighbor. It also dramatically increases the number of brilliant minds we can have working together on the same problem--and that scales up the rate of innovation to a staggering degree.

小说的终极目标是创造一个比现实本身更真实的世界。