If you ask an economist what’s driven economic growth, it’s been major advances in things that mattered – the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

我们不是从祖先那里继承了土地；我们是从子孙那里借来的。

译文：勤奋能使学业更加精进，而沉迷于玩乐会导致学业荒废；德行由于独立思考而有所成就，由于因循随俗而败坏。赏析：人如果愚钝不开，只要勤奋也能补拙，但聪明的人要是玩物就会丧志，做任何事也不会成功。

"There are two occasions when the sacred beauty of Creation becomes dazzlingly apparent, and they occur together. One is when we feel our mortal insufficiency to the world, and the other is when we feel the world's mortal insufficiency to us."

创新的关键不仅在于找到答案，还在于提出正确的问题。

水产养殖中最危险的一句话是："我们一直都是这么做的。"

光是建筑中最重要的材料。