你去找她吧，找十年，找二十年，只要我活着，我总是在这草原上等着你。 - 每日文摘

At that age， I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. I'd calculate our gas mileage -- figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending. I'd been hearing an ad campaign about smoking. I can't remember the details， but basically the ad said， every puff of a cigarette takes some number of minutes off of your life: I think it might have been two minutes per puff. At any rate， I decided to do the math for my grandmother. I estimated the number of cigarettes per days， estimated the number of puffs per cigarette and so on. When I was satisfied that I'd come up with a reasonable number， I poked my head into the front of the car， tapped my grandmother on the shoulder， and proudly proclaimed， "At two minutes per puff， you've taken nine years off your life！"

在那样的年纪，我会找任何借口做些估测或者小算术。我会计算油耗还有杂货花销等鸡毛蒜皮的小事。我听过一个有关吸烟的广告。我记不得细节了，但是广告大意是说，每吸一口香烟会减少几分钟的寿命，大概是两分钟。无论如何，我决定为祖母做个算术。我估测了祖母每天要吸几支香烟，每支香烟要吸几口等等，然后心满意足地得出了一个合理的数字。接着，我捅了捅坐在前面的祖母的头，又拍了拍她的肩膀，然后骄傲地宣称，"每天吸两分钟的烟，你就少活九年！"

杰夫·贝索斯

想象是创造的开始。你想象你所渴望的，你意愿你所想象的，最终你创造你所意愿的。

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will.

萧伯纳

自由不仅仅是选择做什么，也是选择不做什么的权利。

哈耶克

然后…不知什么原因，我所做的事好像在某些人看来有了意义。我的头脑中好像响起一声警报。我说 “他是个实干家，他拥有所有问题的答案”，我要追随你，甘先生！于是我有了伙伴，然后，我有了更多的伙伴，然后，又有更多的人加入，有人后来告诉我，人们看到了希望，那时我什么也不知道。

Now...for some reason, what I was doing seemed to... make sense to people. It was like an alarm went off in my head. I said, "Here's a guy that's got his act together. Here's somebody who has the answer." I'll follow you anywhere, Mr. Gump. So I got company. And after that, I got more company. And then, even more people joined in. Somebody later told me it gave people hope. Now, I don't know anything about that,