自然不作飞跃。（拉丁文，指自然界的演变是连续的而非跳跃的）

历史不是发生过的事，历史只是历史学家告诉我们的故事。

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Bidders in an auction are like players in a game—the rules shape their strategies.

科学的进步是我们逐渐意识到自己无知的过程。

In a way, if you like, at one end of the spectrum of sympathy, you've got the tabloid newspaper. At the other end of the spectrum, you've got tragedy and tragic art. And I suppose I'm arguing that we should learn a little bit about what's happening in tragic art. It would be insane to call Hamlet a loser. He is not a loser, though he has lost. And I think that is the message of tragedy to us, and why it's so very, very important, I think.

Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle, and best at the end.