我经常看到一些人在生活中崛起,他们并不是最聪明的,有时甚至不是最勤奋的,但他们是学习的机器。他们每天晚上睡觉时都比起床时更聪明一点,这对他们有多大的帮助,尤其是当你还有很长的路要走的时候。
I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines. They go to bed every night a little wiser than they were when they got up and boy does that help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you.
你无法管理你无法衡量的东西。
最好的故事是那些为读者的想象力留出空间的故事。
被视为行为系统的人类其实相当简单。我们行为表面上的复杂性很大程度上反映了我们所处环境的复杂性。
We have a responsibility, every one of us. We may think we live a long way from the oceans, but we don't. What we actually do here, has a direct effect on the oceans—and what the oceans do then reflects back on us.
Words have the power to heal the wounds that reality inflicts.
A good mathematician is one who can see analogies between theorems; a great mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies.