那么为什么我要谈论失败的好处呢？因为失败意味着剥离掉那些不必要的东西。我因此不再伪装自己、远离自我，而重新开始把所有精力放在对我最重要的事情上。
So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
创新是区分领导者和追随者的关键。
在互联网上获得正确答案的最好方法是发布一个明显错误的答案，并等待有人来纠正你。
The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.
Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.
历史学家的任务是让死者重生。