The best way to predict the future is to create it.

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.

一本怀有恶意的书籍将不会伤害到任何人，除了写作它的傻瓜。

当其他年轻人都在下西洋跳棋时，我已在下西洋象棋了。