当他未得到官职的时候，唯恐得不到；已经得到了官职，又唯恐丢失掉。假若害怕丢失掉，便什么坏事都能干出来。

小孩是在敏感期学会调适自己并获得特定能力的。

数学证明的美在于它的优雅以及它以清晰简洁的方式揭示潜在真理的方式。

And when you do I want you to know this， remember this: there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction. Now when you’re down there in the hole， it looks like failure. So this past year I had to spoon feed those words to myself.

写吧，否则就会死去。

作家必须是一个永远的外来者，所有正统观念的批评者。

In a world of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

The mind is a system of organs of computation, designed by natural selection to solve the kinds of problems our ancestors faced in their foraging way of life.

我喜欢创作既易于理解又有深度的作品。