The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.

  • -- William Hague 威廉海牙

世界不会进入同心协力的权力集团。实际上,它正在进入权力扩散阶段,拥有比人类文明中任何时候都多的决策中心。这就要求你把自己置于比以往任何时候都多的权力中心。

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Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.

文明已经被摧毁了很多次,这个文明也不例外。它可以被摧毁。我们可以把时间想象成几百万年,生活就会一点一点地恢复。宇宙对我们的作用非常迫切,但地质时间是不同的。

Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation.

仅仅携带一把尺子在口袋里就应该被禁止,至少在道德上是这样的。统治者是新文盲的象征。统治者是一种新疾病的症状,我们的文明正在瓦解。

Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything.

许多小说家把定义明确、精确的人物置于重要的历史背景中,而不管发生什么事,历史背景都是次要的。

And I found that when I built my own place and just shut the door, the creativity was endless.

我发现当我建好自己的房子,关上门的时候,我的创造力是无穷无尽的。