摘要：我们常用科技来节省时间，但科技也越来越多地消耗掉了我们节省下来的时间，或者让节省出来的时间变得不那么有存在感、不太属于我们个人、不那么丰富多彩了。我担心的是，世界离我们的指间越来越近，却离我们的内心越来越远。这不是一个非此即彼的问题，“反科技”大概是唯一一件比无条件“亲科技”更愚蠢的事了，这是关乎我们的生活根本的平衡问题。
Susan Sontag(苏珊 桑塔格)
2003年在Vassar College毕业演讲
"You'll notice that I haven't talked about love. Or about happiness. I've talked about becoming -- or remaining -- the person who can be happy, a lot of the time, without thinking that being happy is what it's all about. "
你们会注意到我从没谈过爱或是快乐的话题。但我谈过成为(或是作为)一个快乐的人，大多数时候根本不去想快乐到底是什么。
George Saunders
2013年Syracuse University毕业演讲
"Do all the other things, the ambitious things — travel, get rich, get famous, innovate, lead, fall in love, make and lose fortunes, swim naked in wild jungle rivers – but as you do, to the extent that you can, err in the direction of kindness."
去做所有你有抱负的大事——旅行、赚钱、成名、创新、领导、相爱、赚到钱赔光钱、在野生丛林的河里裸泳，但在你做这些事的同时，尽你所能，力求行善。
Jonathan Franzen
2011年Kenyon College毕业演讲
"When you stay in your room and rage or sneer or shrug your shoulders, as I did for many years, the world and its problems are impossibly daunting. But when you go out and put yourself in real relation to real people, or even just real animals, there’s a very real danger that you might love some of them."
当你宅在房间里愤怒、嘲笑或耸肩的时候，就像我过去很多年一样，这个世界和所有问题只会让你畏惧。但是，当你走出去和活生生的人建立起互动关系，哪怕是和活生生的动物互动起来，你可能会遇到的危险是——爱上某些人、某些动物。Neil Gaiman
2012年The University of the Arts毕业演讲
"I'm serious. Husband runs off with a politician? Make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by mutated boa constrictor? Make good art. IRS on your trail? Make good art. Cat exploded? Make good art. Somebody on the Internet thinks what you do is stupid or evil or it's all been done before? Make good art. Probably things will work out somehow, and eventually time will take the sting away, but that doesn't matter. Do what only you do best. Make good art."
我是认真的。老公和政客跑了?去创作好的艺术吧。腿被压断了然后被变异的大蟒蛇啃了?去创作好的艺术吧。国税局在查你?去创作好的艺术吧。你家猫爆炸了?去创作好的艺术吧。有网民说你做的东东很傻、很烂、抄袭前人?去创作好的艺术吧。或许事情会莫名其妙地顺利发展，最终时间会带走所有流言蜚语，但那都不重要。把只有你可以做的东东做好。去创作好的艺术吧。
Jonathan Safran Foer
2013年Middlebury College毕业演讲
"We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present, intimate and rich. I worry that the closer the world gets to our fingertips, the further it gets from our hearts. It’s not an either/or -- being 'anti-technology' is perhaps the only thing more foolish than being unquestioningly 'pro-technology' -- but a question of balance that our lives hang upon."