Don’t be the smartest person in the room. Hangout with， and learn from， people smarter than yourself. Even better， find smart people who will disagree with you.

唯一真正的错误是我们从中什么也没学到的错误。

你活得越久，就越意识到没有什么是固定的，每个人都会成为少数。

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.

我不会花时间高谈阔论那些高概念的东西；我花时间解决工程和制造问题。

【译文】 颜渊感叹地说：“老师的学问越仰望越觉得高耸，越钻研越觉得深厚；看着就在前面，忽然却在后面。老师步步引导，用知识丰富我，用礼法约束我，想不学都不成。