Now, I am not going to stand here and tell you that failure is fun. That period of my life was a dark one, and I had no idea that there was going to be what the press has since represented as a kind of fairy tale resolution. I had no idea then how far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope rather than a reality.

The next agricultural revolution will be invisible—it's happening in labs, in data clouds, and most importantly, in the way we think.《From Soil to Silicon》

I write to understand what hurts me and to make it exist outside of myself.

The only thing that stands between a person and what they want in life is the will to try it and the faith to believe it’s possible.

The ordinary is always political.

The joy of solving a mathematical problem is unparalleled; it is a moment of pure intellectual triumph.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running; if you stand still, they will swallow you.