作家的任务是使熟悉的事物变得陌生，使陌生的事物变得熟悉。
The task of the writer is to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar.
Be a pro. Back up your back up. Have at least one physical backup and one backup in the cloud. Have more than one of each. How much would you pay to retrieve all your data， photos， notes， if you lost them？ Backups are cheap compared to regrets.
We must keep learning to keep up with the times.
I raised my kids to be independent—just like me.
The architect must be humble before the forces of nature.