记忆是脆弱的，但它也是我们理解过去最强大的工具。

生命的真相不在于宏大的事件，而在于那些安静的间隙。

写作就像挖掘宝藏——直到你开始，你才会发现你会找到什么。

You play with the cards you're dealt...whatever that means.

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.