And what I noted, since the really big ideas carry 95 percent of the freight, it wasn’t at all that hard for me to pick up all the big ideas and all the big disciplines and make them a standard part of my mental routines. Once you have the ideas, of course, they are no good if you don’t practice. You don’t practice, you lose it.

抽象的目的不是含糊不清，而是创建一个新的语义层次，在这个层次上可以绝对精确。

Sometimes the simplest melodies are the most powerful.

别让恐惧阻止你做自己。

The only way to end racism is to stop talking about it.

I think that the best way to predict the future is to create it.

应对不自由世界的唯一方法是变得如此绝对自由，以至于你的存在本身就是一种反叛。

Leadership is about making the tough decisions and standing by them.