我们钦佩的人的品质，如善良、慷慨、开放、诚实、理解和同情，在我们的系统中是失败的伴随物。而我们憎恶的那些特质，如精明、贪婪、占有欲、卑鄙、自我中心和自私，却是成功的特质。
The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.
写作就是抵抗历史的抹去。
The future isn't written in the stars. There are no guarantees. So claim your adulthood. Be intentional. Get to work. Pick your family. Do the math. Make your own certainty. Don't be defined by what you didn't know or didn't do.
统计分析的最终目标是从数据中提取信息。
Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.