The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.

The best architecture comes from constraints, not from freedom.

I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always help you.

我只想知道我将在哪里死去，这样我就永远不会去那里。

If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer consensus, the kind of consensus that matters to adolescents or to many among the intelligentsia.

The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

煤炭开采的创新不仅仅是关于开采，而是更智能、更安全、更尊重环境地开采。