You’ve got to have models in your head. And you’ve got to array your experience—both vicarious and direct—on this latticework of models. You may have noticed students who just try to remember and pound back what is remembered. Well, they fail in school and in life. You’ve got to hang experience on a latticework of models in your mind.

Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.

不要归罪于天地陰陽的变化，一切都应责怪人事；不要对圣人抱有过高的奢望，一切都应求诸自身。

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has none.

Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.

建筑是一种挑战，是对自我的挑战。