I met the towering intellectuals in books, not in classroom, which is natural.My family was into all that stuff, getting ahead through discipline, knowledge, and self-control.

Good architecture creates possibilities, not limitations.

如果你想理解大脑，你不应该只看单个神经元。你应该观察成千上万个神经元之间的相互作用。

理解自然的途径是通过数学的语言。

我认为不断挑战自己，不要让自己太舒服是很重要的。

That’s one small step for a man, a giant leap for mankind.

The quality of an organization's consistency determines the quality of its reliability.

我认为能够不过于严肃地对待自己是很重要的。

保守主义就是偏爱熟悉而非陌生，偏爱经过尝试而非未经尝试，偏爱事实而非神秘，偏爱实际而非可能，偏爱有限而非无限，偏爱近处而非远方，偏爱足够而非过剩，偏爱便利而非完美，偏爱当下的欢笑而非乌托邦的幸福。