过去是一个陌生的国度；那里的人们行事方式不同。

We are survival machines—robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.

我认为这是生活中最重要的事情之一：对自己感觉良好。

创新不仅仅是技术问题；它关乎人以及我们如何共同解决问题。

对我来说，这总是很奇怪……我们钦佩的人的品质，如善良、慷慨、开放、诚实、理解和感受，在我们的系统中是失败的伴随物。而我们厌恶的那些特质，如精明、贪婪、占有欲、卑鄙、自我中心和自私，是成功的特质。

I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time they start working and when they finish and how much time they take for lunch, they’re actually trying to find out, ‘Is he as crazy as I am?’ I don’t need that question answered.