80% of life's most defining moments take place by age 35.

对那些来访牛津大学的外国友人，我有一个坏消息，这里的人都很势利。有时候，英国以外的人会想象，势利是英国人特有的个性，来自那些乡间别墅和头衔爵位。坏消息是，并不只是这样，势利是一个全球性的问题，我们是个全球性的组织，这是个全球性的问题，它确实存在。势利是什么？，势利是以一小部分的你，来判别你的全部价值，那就是势利。

我对那些人们认为不能用于永久结构的脆弱材料感兴趣。

如果不是现在，那是什么时候？如果不是我，那会是谁？

I don’t like to be told what I am.

Thought travels faster than light, for it traverses time dimensions in an instant.

不要为了得到世界而失去你的灵魂，智慧比金银更宝贵。

半导体产业的核心竞争力在于创新，没有创新就没有未来。

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

To make love with a stranger is the best. There is nothing more exciting.