The Internet is the best thing that ever happened to China. It turns us into individuals and also enables us to share our perceptions and feelings. It creates a culture of individualism and exchange even though the real society doesn’t promote it.
AI WEIWEIMany people are going to use [Beijing National Stadium], which makes it more meaningful. If we don’t design it, somebody else has to design it.
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Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market.
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These folks are creative and ironic, and the government can ultimately not control what is going on in their heads.
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Technology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution.
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China hasn’t only existed for one day. Now, the whole nation has become richer and it’s become a problem. The problem is universal. The factor is big. Everybody has to rethink the balance of the world and the whole landscape.
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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
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Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.
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Chinese government is very clearly losing power in every aspect, but trying to fix up all the problems or potential problems.
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I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
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I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it’s all we need.
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He will still mean danger. Modern technology requires calm. You shouldn’t trust anyone with a car who has no knowledge about vehicles or roads.
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Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one’s imagination – perhaps more importantly – creativity is the power to act.
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Had I to create a name for these times, I’d say it is the age of craziness
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I think I’m just a traveler. When you walk across a river and there’s no bridge, you build one. I’m used to having to deal with Chinese Communist ideology.
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The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.
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Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
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