南开校训，意为培养公正与能力兼备的人才，追求不断创新。

【释义】：一个人如果没有他人的帮助，就难以取得成功；一匹马若缺乏其他马的竞争，就无法快速奔跑；堆积土石成台，没有更多的土便无法增高；池水若缺乏流动与激荡，就会停滞不前。

我喜欢竞争。这就是我的工作。

当别人都不相信你时，你必须相信自己——这就是冠军的秘诀。

我不考虑我的遗产。我只是在做我喜欢的事。

We are survival machines—robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.

"We are all just walking each other home."

"Memory is a strange thing. It doesn't work like I thought it did. We are so used to thinking of it as a camera or a tape recorder, but it's not like that at all. It's more like a painter. It creates a picture, but it's not always the same picture."