That's exhilarating if you're doing well, and very crushing if you're not. It leads, in the worst cases -- in the analysis of a sociologist like Emil Durkheim -- it leads to increased rates of suicide. There are more suicides in developed, individualistic countries than in any other part of the world. And some of the reason for that is that people take what happens to them extremely personally -- they own their success, but they also own their failure.

Success in business starts with integrity—without it, even the best strategies will fail.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.

未来属于科学，也属于那些与科学为友的人。

名声不是凭空产生的，赞誉也不会自己增长，只有成就了功业，名声才会到来。 

The so-called ‘information age’ has given us a surplus of information and a deficit of meaning.

I don't believe in the concept of a 'leading man'. I believe in the concept of a 'leading human being'.

You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.