如果给我一部时间机器,我会告诉21岁的自己,人的幸福在于知道生活不是一份漂亮的成绩单,你的资历、简历,都不是你的生活,虽然你会碰到很多与我同龄或更老一点的人今天依然还在混淆两者。生活是艰辛的,复杂的,超出任何人的控制能力,而谦恭地了解这一点,将使你历经沧桑后能够更好的生存。
So given a Time Turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone’s total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.
检验一个经济学家是否优秀的标准,是看他能否比别人更好地解释过去。
The body is a landscape of pain and beauty.
对付不自由世界的唯一方法就是变得如此绝对自由,以至于你的存在本身就是一种反叛。
变化的速度如此之快,以至于我们必须跑得更快才能保持在原地。
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
自由政府的唯一准则应该是不要信任任何拥有权力的人,以免危及公共自由。
投资中最重要的事情是在正确的时间处于正确的市场。