Innovation is not just about creating something new; it's about improving what already exists.

The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.

对抗世界的唯一防御是对它的彻底了解。

时间总是充满惊喜，它以我们无法预料的方式流动。

我试图摆脱那些自信满满地回答自己并不真正了解的问题的人。

他让自己被一种信念所左右，即人类并非在母亲生下他们的那一天就一劳永逸地诞生了，而是生活迫使他们一次又一次地重生自己。