老铁匠操着小锺，与其说是打，毋宁说是抚摸了一下那蓝钢。三个如狼似虎的儿子，各操着十八磅的大锺，各打了一锺，挟带着狂热与激昂，如同奔驰中的烈马之蹄，迅速无比但又节点分明地砸下去。奇怪的是竟然没有声音。往常这父子四人打铁时发出的声响半条街都能听到，连火车的汽笛声都能被盖住，但现在，这锻打，这劳动，剧烈至极，连墙角上蟋蟀的鸣叫都声声入耳，让人感觉到深秋之悲凉，生命之短暂。

In looking for someone to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. But the most important is integrity because if they don't have that, the other two qualities, intelligence and energy, are going to kill you.

在你雇用人之前，你需要确认他的三项素质：正直诚实，聪明能干，精力充沛。但是最重要的是正直诚实，因为如果他不正直诚实而又具备了聪明能干和精力充沛，你的好日子也就到头了。

巴菲特

We're at the beginning of a new era where AI can help solve some of the world's most challenging problems.

我们正处于一个新时代的开端，AI可以帮助解决世界上一些最具挑战性的问题。

桑达尔·皮查伊

在那样的年纪，我会找任何借口做些估测或者小算术。我会计算油耗还有杂货花销等鸡毛蒜皮的小事。我听过一个有关吸烟的广告。我记不得细节了，但是广告大意是说，每吸一口香烟会减少几分钟的寿命，大概是两分钟。无论如何，我决定为祖母做个算术。我估测了祖母每天要吸几支香烟，每支香烟要吸几口等等，然后心满意足地得出了一个合理的数字。接着，我捅了捅坐在前面的祖母的头，又拍了拍她的肩膀，然后骄傲地宣称，"每天吸两分钟的烟，你就少活九年！"

At that age， I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. I'd calculate our gas mileage -- figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending. I'd been hearing an ad campaign about smoking. I can't remember the details， but basically the ad said， every puff of a cigarette takes some number of minutes off of your life: I think it might have been two minutes per puff. At any rate， I decided to do the math for my grandmother. I estimated the number of cigarettes per days， estimated the number of puffs per cigarette and so on. When I was satisfied that I'd come up with a reasonable number， I poked my head into the front of the car， tapped my grandmother on the shoulder， and proudly proclaimed， "At two minutes per puff， you've taken nine years off your life！"