To look at the symbolic dimensions of social action—art, religion, ideology, science, law, morality, common sense—is not to turn away from the existential dilemmas of life for some empyrean realm of deemotionalized forms; it is to plunge into the midst of them.
关注社会行动的符号维度——艺术、宗教、意识形态、科学、法律、道德、常识——并不是为了逃避生活的存在困境,进入某种超然的、去情感化的形式领域;而是为了深入这些困境的核心。
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.
The challenge in cryptography is not just to create unbreakable codes, but to create systems that remain secure even as technology evolves.