The most important skill for an empirical researcher is not math, but judgment.

Our game is to recognize a big idea when it comes along when one doesn't come along very often.

成功不是给予的，而是赢得的。

I write songs because I'm fucked up in the head and need to get stuff out.

The knowledge of the circumstances of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form, but solely as the dispersed bits of incomplete and frequently contradictory knowledge which all the separate individuals possess.

天才和愚蠢之间的区别就是天才有它的限制。

【译文】贫穷而没有怨恨很难，富裕而不骄狂是容易的。