Voka's Notes

> "我们就是我们反复做的事情。因此，卓越不是一种行为，而是一种习惯。"

> "The history of every major galactic civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases... Survival, Inquiry, and Sophistication."

> "A knot is a closed curve in space that does not intersect itself."

> "每一面墙都是一只耳朵。"

> "The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve."

> "He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it."

> "To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower..."

> "The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."

> "The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operations of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish."

> "在那个帝国，制图学已臻完美，一个省的地图大小就是一整个城市，帝国的地图大小就是一整个省。"

> "他的记忆犹如垃圾场。" —— 博尔赫斯，《博闻强记的富内斯》

1986年，一个叫 Craig Reynolds 的计算机图形学研究者写了一个程序。程序里的每个个体——他叫它们 "boids"（鸟形物）——只遵守三条规则：