I do not know what I may appear to the world， but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore， and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary， whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

现代科学管理中最突出的单一要素是任务理念。每个工人的工作都由管理层至少提前一天完全计划好，并且在大多数情况下，每个人都会收到完整的书面指示，详细描述他要完成的任务。

All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I’m not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.

世俗的儒者不考察，认为工商是末业，妄加议论抑制。