A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, a mere heart of stone.  

Life has no meaning a priori. It is up to you to give it a meaning.

One isn't born one's self. One is born with mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas—and you have to work through it all.

When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions， a few of which I had thought about， some of which I had sort of stumbled on， and many that I had no control over whatsoever.

BYD's vision is to build a zero-emission ecosystem.

Writing is that neutral, composite, oblique space where our subject slips away, the negative where all identity is lost, starting with the very identity of the body writing.