"A book is a mirror; if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a sage to look out."

最微小的善行也比最宏大的意图更有价值。

【释义】道是宏大而无形的，德是实在而具体的。

Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble， competent people on a level with dentists， that would be splendid.

"The colony is the place where the project of a new humanity is to be tested, where the dream of a world without borders is to be realized, where the dream of a world without races is to be realized, where the dream of a world without nations is to be realized, where the dream of a world without classes is to be realized, where the dream of a world without genders is to be realized, where the dream of a world without religions is to be realized, where the dream of a world without money is to be realized."

在变革的时代，学习者将继承地球，而那些博学的人会发现自己装备精良，却要面对一个不复存在的世界。