我天生不是一个政治人物。我不认为作家应该是政治人物。但在南非，你无法将政治排除在你的生活之外。

译文：读书人读书，第一要有志向，第二要有见识，第三要有恒心。有了志向就不会甘心处于平庸的地位;有了见识就知道学问是没有尽头的，不敢因为有了一点收获就自我满足;有了恒心就绝对没有办不成的事情。这三种品质缺一不可。

The companies that will thrive are those that see plastic not as waste, but as a renewable resource.

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

一个设计良好的系统是能够随着时间的推移而发展，而不需要大量的返工。

I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.

我不追随音乐潮流。