"There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations."
没有所谓的新想法。那是不可能的。我们只是把许多旧想法放进一个心理万花筒里，转动它们，它们就会形成新的、奇特的组合。
Our heroes are human heroes. That's a very new situation. Most other societies have had, right at their center, the worship of something transcendent: a god, a spirit, a natural force, the universe, whatever it is -- something else that is being worshiped. We've slightly lost the habit of doing that, which is, I think, why we're particularly drawn to nature.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Literature is the art of finding the extraordinary in the ordinary.
我们是生存机器——盲目编程的机器人车辆，旨在保存被称为基因的自私分子。
我为自己是黑人感到非常自豪，但黑人并不是我的全部。那是我的文化历史背景，我的基因构成，但它不是我全部的身份，也不是我回答每个问题的基础。
Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.
A well-designed home should tell a story about the people who live there.
创新不仅仅是创造新事物，而是让现有的事物变得更好。
谷物生产的创新不仅仅是技术问题，更是思维方式的转变。