The most reliable way to forecast the future is to understand the present.

——赖忠诚之精神感人之深，国民革命军因此而起，1911年

写作是理解世界的一种方式。

我不是说唱歌手，我是一场运动。

I'm mentioning all this -- I'm mentioning all this because I think this is not merely a personal problem; you may think I'm wrong in this, but I think we live in an age when our lives are regularly punctuated by career crises, by moments when what we thought we knew -- about our lives, about our careers -- comes into contact with a threatening sort of reality.

Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying no to all but the most crucial features.

"A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end—but not necessarily in that order."