想要了解一个人，就听听他是如何评价他人的，这远比听信别人对他的评价来得彻底。
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
We also believe candor benefits us as managers. The CEO who misleads others in public may eventually mislead himself in private.
Mathematics is the language in which the universe is written.
在备战时，我总是发现计划是无用的，但规划是不可或缺的。
At that age， I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. I'd calculate our gas mileage -- figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending. I'd been hearing an ad campaign about smoking. I can't remember the details， but basically the ad said， every puff of a cigarette takes some number of minutes off of your life: I think it might have been two minutes per puff. At any rate， I decided to do the math for my grandmother. I estimated the number of cigarettes per days， estimated the number of puffs per cigarette and so on. When I was satisfied that I'd come up with a reasonable number， I poked my head into the front of the car， tapped my grandmother on the shoulder， and proudly proclaimed， "At two minutes per puff， you've taken nine years off your life！"
"Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity."
纠正一个错误与建立一个新的真理或事实同样有益，有时甚至更好。
风、海和移动的潮汐就是它们本来的样子。如果其中有奇迹、美丽和庄严，科学将会发现这些品质。