Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything—all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure—these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

I ought to have judged by deeds and not by words.

Computer programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and especially because it produces objects of beauty.

The best investments are in people and their potential.

如果爵位不高,那么人民就不敬重他；如果俸禄不重,那么人民就不会信任他；如果在理事时没有决断权那么人民不会敬畏他。

世界上充满了故事，但只有少数值得讲述。