If you ask an economist what’s driven economic growth, it’s been major advances in things that mattered – the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

Fame is not the goal. The goal is the art.

最好的技术是无形的，它只是默默地发挥作用。

人们说，所有幸福的人心中都拥有上帝。

"I always try to make movies that are entertaining, but also have something to say."

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.