The truth is, art requires of its practitioners not talent alone, but a certain kind of temperament.

The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.

心灵是生物的问题解决装置。

The sun is shining in the sky, there ain't a cloud in sight.

We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.

越是奇怪的事物，越不神秘。

We are all potential fossils waiting to be uncovered.

数字排斥是我们这个时代最大的不平等之一。