The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts.
科学的目标是寻求对复杂事实的最简单解释。
The quantum Fourier transform is the key to the exponential speedup in Shor's algorithm.
The best technology is the one that solves real problems.
I don’t think you should spend much time being unhappy about the bad breaks. You get a lot of them, but you also get a lot of good ones. The thing to do is just to maximize your odds of using the good ones and minimizing the effects of the bad ones.
Ingersoll's story of the man that went down from heaven on a reduced-rate excursion ticket good for 30 days --- and tried to sell his return ticket.