独立是国家的灵魂。

The novel is the art form of the individual.

A building should be rooted in its place, but reach out to the world.

Problem solving is the central activity of intelligent systems.

Your smarts will come in handy because you will travel in a land of marvels. We humans -- plodding as we are -- will astonish ourselves. We'll invent ways to generate clean energy and a lot of it. Atom by atom， we'll assemble tiny machines that will enter cell walls and make repairs. This month comes the extraordinary but also inevitable news that we've synthesized life. In the coming years， we'll not only synthesize it， but we'll engineer it to specifications. I believe you'll even see us understand the human brain. Jules Verne， Mark Twain， Galileo， Newton -- all the curious from the ages would have wanted to be alive most of all right now. As a civilization， we will have so many gifts， just as you as individuals have so many individual gifts as you sit before me.

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass, it's about learning how to dance in the rain.

Don't wait for permission to innovate - just start.

我们必须接受事物的本来面目，但我们应该努力使它们按照我们希望的方式到来。