Looking back at the 21-year-old that I was at graduation， is a slightly uncomfortable experience for the 42-year-old that she has become. Half my lifetime ago， I was striking an uneasy balance between the ambition I had for myself， and what those closest to me expected of me.
回顾21岁刚刚毕业时的自己，对于今天42岁的我来说，是一个稍微不太舒服的经历。可以说，我人生的前一部分，一直挣扎在自己的雄心和身边的人对我的期望之间。
小说是一张不存在之地的地图，但感觉真实。
Technology itself has no value, it only has value when applied to real life.
我不让挫折定义我。
And what I noted, since the really big ideas carry 95 percent of the freight, it wasn’t at all that hard for me to pick up all the big ideas and all the big disciplines and make them a standard part of my mental routines. Once you have the ideas, of course, they are no good if you don’t practice. You don’t practice, you lose it.
Enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom.
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
这世间所谓的真相都在累积一个巨大的谎言。
The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.