Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician.
每一个优秀的数学家至少是半个哲学家,而每一个优秀的哲学家至少是半个数学家。
We want to build technology that everybody loves using, and that affects everyone. We want to create beautiful, intuitive services and technologies that are so incredibly useful that people use them twice a day. Like they use a toothbrush. There aren’t that many things people use twice a day.
童话故事比真实更真实:不是因为它们告诉我们龙存在,而是因为它们告诉我们龙是可以被打败的。
The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.
【原文】子贡曰:“贫而无谄,富而无骄,何如?”子曰:“可也。未若贫而乐,富而好礼者也。”子贡曰:“《诗》云:‘如切如磋,如琢如磨’,其斯之谓与?”子曰:“赐也,始可与言《诗》已矣,告诸往而知来者。”【译文】子贡说:“贫穷却不阿谀奉承,富贵却不狂妄自大,怎么样?”孔子说:“可以了。(但是)不如贫穷而乐于道,富贵而谦虚好礼的好。”子贡说:“完善自身的修养,既像雕刻骨器,又像雕刻象牙;既像雕琢玉器,又像雕刻石头一样下功夫,恐怕说得就是这个道理吧?”孔子说:“子贡啊,现在可以与你谈诗了。提起学过的知识,你就知道将要学的知识,并有所发挥。”
人生就像一场逆行的旅程,我也是其中的一个过客。
To lead in this industry, you must respect both the land and the people who work it.