True history is a finite set: everything that has happened is fixed in the dust, immutable. The future, however, is an infinite set—time forever branches, leading toward wildernesses yet unvisited.
The marvelous thing is this: as we walk into the infinite, the only luggage we carry with us is that finite history.
We use the entirety of our past to unlock a future without answers. This, perhaps, is the place where humans are most lonely—and most brave. 真实的历史,是一个有限集,所有发生过的,都已被尘埃固定。而未来,是一个无限集,时间永远分叉,通向未曾抵达的旷野。
奇妙的是:我们走向无限时,身上唯一的行李,却是那有限的历史。
我们用过去的全部,去打开一个没有答案的未来。这大概就是人最孤独,也最勇敢的地方。