The ability to imagine counterfactuals is what distinguishes humans from machines.

Real music comes from the heart, not for show.

经验只是我们给错误取的名字。

That's exhilarating if you're doing well, and very crushing if you're not. It leads, in the worst cases -- in the analysis of a sociologist like Emil Durkheim -- it leads to increased rates of suicide. There are more suicides in developed, individualistic countries than in any other part of the world. And some of the reason for that is that people take what happens to them extremely personally -- they own their success, but they also own their failure.

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates， and the magistrates obey the law.

The Langlands program is a challenge to the limits of human understanding.

I’m not here to be liked, I’m here to be real.

最成功的组织是那些能够将数据转化为信息，将信息转化为洞察，将洞察转化为行动的组织。

城市是生活上演的舞台。

A company's greatest asset is its people; invest in them, and they'll deliver beyond expectations.