Technology has no shortcuts, only continuous accumulation and breakthroughs.

The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

译文：谁的背后，没有人会说三道四呢，哪一个人不在别人面前议论他人。赏析：我们不管做得多么完美，背后都会有人评长论短，所以，只要我们行事问心无愧，光明磊落，就不必在乎世间的流言蜚语。

The body is a landscape of scars, each one a story, a memory, a lesson.