我对自己的决定非常有信心，因为我知道自己想要什么。

It's probably as unlikely that you would nowadays become as rich and famous as Bill Gates, as it was unlikely in the17th century that you would accede to the ranks of the French aristocracy. But the point is, it doesn't feel that way. It's made to feel, by magazines and other media outlets, that if you've got energy, a few bright ideas about technology, a garage -- you, too, could start a major thing.

过去并非直线，而是错综复杂的网。

真正的创新来自于对现有问题的深刻理解。

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

成为作家就是成为生活的间谍。

当有人做出决定时，他实际上是跳入了一股强大的潮流，这股潮流将把他带到他最初做出决定时从未梦想过的地方。

最好的表演来自于脆弱和真实的地方。