詩人的職責是將那些我們共有的、如此深刻、如此重要卻又難以名狀的情感訴諸文字。
使我們成為人類的東西也是使我們脆弱的東西。
Your smarts will come in handy because you will travel in a land of marvels. We humans -- plodding as we are -- will astonish ourselves. We'll invent ways to generate clean energy and a lot of it. Atom by atom, we'll assemble tiny machines that will enter cell walls and make repairs. This month comes the extraordinary but also inevitable news that we've synthesized life. In the coming years, we'll not only synthesize it, but we'll engineer it to specifications. I believe you'll even see us understand the human brain. Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Galileo, Newton -- all the curious from the ages would have wanted to be alive most of all right now. As a civilization, we will have so many gifts, just as you as individuals have so many individual gifts as you sit before me.
Leadership in manufacturing means anticipating change before it happens.
In mathematics, truth is always relative to the system you're working in.