勇气是生命为给予平静所要求的代价。

To write is to breathe, to live, to exist.

The present state of the system of nature is evidently a consequence of what it was in the preceding moment, and if we conceive of an intelligence which at a given instant comprehends all the relations of the entities of this universe, it could state the respective positions, motions, and general effects of all these entities at any time in the past or future.

The true power of a database lies in its ability to provide insights that were previously unimaginable.

A company's culture is defined by how it treats its lowest-ranking employee.

Believe in yourself and anything is possible.

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he turn to the novel.

I am interested in the beauty of the ordinary.