The best time to negotiate your salary for a new job is the moment AFTER they say they want you， and not before. Then it becomes a game of chicken for each side to name an amount first， but it is to your advantage to get them to give a number before you do.

进步主要取决于人类本性中最强大而不仅仅是最高尚的力量能在多大程度上被用来增加社会福祉。

The stories we tell ourselves are just as important as the stories told about us.

"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."

一本书是一面镜子：如果一只猿猴看进去，一个使徒几乎不可能看出去。

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

"Writing is a way to give voice to our fears."

地图不是领土。

艺术是一种思维方式，而不是一种职业。

未经审视的生活不值得过。