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.

创新不仅仅是技术的问题；它关乎我们思维和工作方式的改变。

艺术是一种驾驭世界混乱的方式。

The artist must be a perpetual beginner.

我们对自然的自觉认识所能解决的最直接且在某种意义上最重要的问题，是对未来事件的预测，以便我们能根据这种预测安排当前的事务。