我想建立一些属于自己的东西，一些我可以指着说，这是我做的。这是我看到的唯一让生活有意义的方式。
I wanted to build something that was my own, something I could point to and say, I made that. It was the only way I saw to make life meaningful.
Most people are afraid of change, but if you look at it like it's something that can always count on, then it can be a comfort．It doesn't have many things that you can count on．
——2002年6月温铁军在清华大学的一次讲座
每个清晨，我从床上跳下来，然后就踩上了地雷。那个地雷就是我自己。在爆炸之后，我把那一天剩下来的时间用来把炸烂后的碎片收拾到一起。