对那些来访牛津大学的外国友人，我有一个坏消息，这里的人都很势利。有时候，英国以外的人会想象，势利是英国人特有的个性，来自那些乡间别墅和头衔爵位。坏消息是，并不只是这样，势利是一个全球性的问题，我们是个全球性的组织，这是个全球性的问题，它确实存在。势利是什么？，势利是以一小部分的你，来判别你的全部价值，那就是势利。
In a way, I've got some bad news, particularly to anybody who's come to Oxford from abroad. There's a real problem with snobbery, because sometimes people from outside the U.K. imagine that snobbery is a distinctively U.K. phenomenon, fixated on country houses and titles. The bad news is that's not true. Snobbery is a global phenomenon; we area global organization, this is a global phenomenon. What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you, and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.
嫉妒不是病态，而是一种进化出来的防御机制，用来对抗对繁殖成功的威胁。
创新不仅仅是技术的问题；它是关于改变思维方式和流程，以创造可持续的价值。
写作是抵抗世界沉默的方式。
That neither our thoughts， nor passions， nor ideas formed by the imagination， exist without the mind， is what every body will allow.
Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
一旦你开始谈论如果你输了你会做什么，你就已经输了。
最糟糕的不平等形式是试图使不平等的事物平等。