I'm my own experiment. I'm my own work of art.

To be human is to be in constant negotiation with chaos.

And the thing about a successful life is that a lot of the time, our ideas of what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. They're sucked in from other people; chiefly, if you're a man, your father, and if you're a woman, your mother. Psychoanalysis has been drumming home this message for about 80 years. No one's quite listening hard enough, but I very much believe it's true.

You can't manage what you don't measure.

我认为没有什么比发明家看到自己头脑中的创造逐渐走向成功时所感受到的激动更能震撼人心的了……这样的情感让人忘记食物、睡眠、朋友、爱情，忘记一切。

重构程序的最好方法是重构它。

实现明天的唯一限制将是我们今天的疑虑。