The most important precedents deal with the whole idea of symbolic programming - the notion of setting up symbolic expressions that can represent anything one wants, and then having functions that operate on both their structure and content.

  • -- Stephen Wolfram 斯蒂芬·沃尔夫勒姆

最重要的先例涉及符号编程的整个概念——建立符号表达式来表示任何想要的东西,然后让函数同时操作它们的结构和内容。

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I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.

我不想这么说,但我认为,很明显,我们设计贸易协定的体系,对这个国家在世界各地的运作非常重要,不仅已经崩溃,而且已经完全崩溃。

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

光认为它比任何东西都快,但它错了。无论光走得多快,它发现黑暗总是先到达那里,然后等待着它。

You have to sort of see the way that the character behaves, and what the character says and does, and claim it in the same way that you claim anything, really.

你必须看到角色的行为方式,角色说了什么,做了什么,然后用你声明任何事情的方式声明它,真的。

Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

小说对我来说很重要。这就是我所做的,这就是我的人生。