我不是开始，我是结束。

You’ve got to have models in your head. And you’ve got to array your experience—both vicarious and direct—on this latticework of models. You may have noticed students who just try to remember and pound back what is remembered. Well, they fail in school and in life. You’ve got to hang experience on a latticework of models in your mind.

I write to make sense of the world, to give it a shape, a form.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

韧性的关键在于适应性。

现实不是我们所看到的，而是我们所思考的。

Interview with Infinity Plus (February 2001)

The true value of oil lies in its ability to transform economies and societies.