You’ve got to have models in your head. And you’ve got to array your experience—both vicarious and direct—on this latticework of models. You may have noticed students who just try to remember and pound back what is remembered. Well, they fail in school and in life. You’ve got to hang experience on a latticework of models in your mind.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection.

翻译：以天为本的事物亲于上，以地为本的事物亲于下。

Innovation in architecture comes from questioning the established norms and daring to think differently.

"A book is a dream that you hold in your hand."

让我能够做出人生重大抉择的最主要办法是，记住生命随时都有可能结束。因为几乎所有的东西——所有对自身之外的希求、所有的尊严、所有对困窘和失败的恐惧——在死亡来临时都将不复存在，只剩下真正重要的东西。记住自己随时都会死去，这是我所知道的防止患得患失的最好方法。你已经一无所有了，还有什么理由不跟着自己的感觉走呢。