"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

解决复杂问题的关键通常是找到正确的抽象，这种抽象可以在不丢失问题本质特征的情况下简化问题。

I’m not afraid to be different, I’m afraid to be the same.

Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.

"The best investment you can make is in yourself."

The Greeks understood the mysterious power of the hidden side of things. They bequeathed to us one of the most beautiful words in our language—the word 'enthusiasm'—en theos—a god within.

在印度，我们有句谚语：“鸡笼里满是不知道自己被关在笼子里的鸡。”