Business is about people, and understanding people is the key to success.

Our heroes are human heroes. That's a very new situation. Most other societies have had, right at their center, the worship of something transcendent: a god, a spirit, a natural force, the universe, whatever it is -- something else that is being worshiped. We've slightly lost the habit of doing that, which is, I think, why we're particularly drawn to nature.

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

计算机科学中的挑战不仅仅是解决问题，而是找到正确的问题来解决。

如果我们用耕种土地的方式耕种海洋，我们将重蹈覆辙。

出自先秦《荀子·哀公》。鸟被逼得走投无路之时就会用嘴啄人，兽到困窘之时就会用爪抓人，人到穷困潦倒之时就会设计骗人。以鸟兽困窘之时的行为为喻，说明人到穷困潦倒之时便会放弃道德操守的原因。

计算机科学的挑战在于弥合理论模型与实际应用之间的差距。

Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you.