The goal of software engineering is to control complexity, not to create it.

Innovation is at the heart of the games industry. If you're not innovating, you're falling behind.

When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions， a few of which I had thought about， some of which I had sort of stumbled on， and many that I had no control over whatsoever.

照常经营不再是可选项。

我不是说唱歌手，我是一个写作的传奇。

Writing is about making sentences. It is about the rhythm of the sentence, the music of the sentence.

She's simply too strange. We can't relate to her, she speaks in a funny way, she comes from an odd place. So we can't relate to her, and when you can't relate to somebody, you don't envy them. The closer two people are -- in age, in background, in the process of identification -- the more there's a danger of envy, which is incidentally why none of you should ever go to a school reunion, because there is no stronger reference point than people one was at school with.

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.