True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.

  • -- Tom Robbins 汤姆·罗宾斯

当假定的秩序和假定的混乱达到平衡时,才会产生真正的稳定。一个真正稳定的系统期待着意想不到的事情,准备着被打破,等待着被改变。

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I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.

我对任何有关反抗、混乱、混乱的事情都感兴趣——尤其是那些似乎毫无意义的活动。在我看来,这似乎是通往自由的道路。我不是从内心开始,而是从外部开始,通过身体接触到精神。

A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself.

金本位并不意味着人们每天购买的商品和服务价格稳定,它意味着黄金价格本身的稳定。

The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.

许多广告背后的哲学是基于一个古老的观点,即每个人都是两个真正的男人——他是他自己,他想成为的人。

It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do.

这是一种与生俱来的音乐——我可以拿起吉他弹点什么。这不是我有意识做的事情。

The world is not to be put in order; the world is in order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.

世界没有秩序;世界秩序井然。我们应该使自己与这一秩序保持一致。

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

在所有的混乱中都有一个宇宙,在所有的混乱中都有一个秘密的秩序。

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

我们喜欢混乱,因为我们喜欢创造秩序。

Stability means respecting precedents.

稳定意味着尊重先例。