The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.

Innovation is not just about technology; it's about changing the way we live.

挑战是伪装的机会，拥抱它们。

生活中所有最重要的收益——财富、关系或知识——都来自复利可以放大稳定微小收益的魔法。你只需不断稳定地净增1%，就可以达到富足。

不幸的人，尤其在美国，如果人们遇见一些社会底层的人，他们被刻薄地形容成“失败者”，“不走运”和“失败者”中间有很大的差别，这表现了四百年的社会演变，我们对谁该为人生负责看法的改变，神不再掌握我们的命运，我们掌握自己的人生。

唯一无法得到帮助的人是那些责备他人的人。