求知若飢，虚心若愚。

I don't need validation from anyone else. I know who I am.

Short-term gains should never come at the expense of long-term sustainability.

The essence of modernity is psychologism, the experiencing and interpretation of the world in terms of the reactions of our inner life and indeed as an inner world, the dissolution of fixed contents in the fluid element of the soul, from which all that is substantive is filtered and whose forms are merely forms of motion.

设计中最难的部分是保持功能的简洁。

Waste is a design flaw, not an inevitability in aquaculture.

【译文】 孔子说：“读书不想事，越学越糊涂；想事不读书，越想越头痛。”