The historian must have a kind of faith that humanity will not and cannot perish.
I think it's important to stay grounded and remember where you came from.
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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.
人類留下的痕跡往往是傷痕。