出自汉·桓宽《盐铁论·疾贪》。欲，想。表，仪表，这句话指身体。下，指下属。先之身，先要求自己。要想影子正，就要先把自己的身子站直；要想下属清廉，自己要先做出表率。这句话以正影先正身为喻，说明正人先正己的道理。

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

To men like that, time was a surfeit, a barrel they watched slowly drain. When really, he thinks, it’s a glowing puddle you carry in your hands; you should spend all your energy protecting it.

怀疑是智慧的开始。

The beauty of mathematics is that it is one of the few areas of human endeavor where absolute truth can be known.

建筑应该讲述它的时代和地点，但渴望永恒。

A writer must be willing to be misunderstood.