Don't be afraid to make mistakes. If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.
Your smarts will come in handy because you will travel in a land of marvels. We humans -- plodding as we are -- will astonish ourselves. We'll invent ways to generate clean energy and a lot of it. Atom by atom, we'll assemble tiny machines that will enter cell walls and make repairs. This month comes the extraordinary but also inevitable news that we've synthesized life. In the coming years, we'll not only synthesize it, but we'll engineer it to specifications. I believe you'll even see us understand the human brain. Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Galileo, Newton -- all the curious from the ages would have wanted to be alive most of all right now. As a civilization, we will have so many gifts, just as you as individuals have so many individual gifts as you sit before me.
解读:读书不是单纯为功名利禄,而是在遭遇挫折、低谷时,书中智慧、精神能化作内心支撑,助我们咬牙挺过艰难时刻。
The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.
I'm the motherfucking Starboy.