I would rather fail in trying than succeed in conservatism.

Your smarts will come in handy because you will travel in a land of marvels. We humans -- plodding as we are -- will astonish ourselves. We'll invent ways to generate clean energy and a lot of it. Atom by atom， we'll assemble tiny machines that will enter cell walls and make repairs. This month comes the extraordinary but also inevitable news that we've synthesized life. In the coming years， we'll not only synthesize it， but we'll engineer it to specifications. I believe you'll even see us understand the human brain. Jules Verne， Mark Twain， Galileo， Newton -- all the curious from the ages would have wanted to be alive most of all right now. As a civilization， we will have so many gifts， just as you as individuals have so many individual gifts as you sit before me.

The writer must be a perpetual outsider, a critic of all orthodoxies.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

出自北齐·颜之推《颜氏家训·勉学篇》。秉，持、拿。犹，还。贤乎，胜于。少年时代就好学，就像是早上初升的太阳之光；老来才知道虚心向学，就像是拿着蜡烛走在暗夜中。尽管如此，还是比闭着眼睛什么也看不到要强多了。意在鼓励人们时刻不忘学习上进，如果错过学习的最佳时机，努力追补，仍然是精神可嘉的表现。

The free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

测量的精确性不仅仅是技术问题，更是拓展人类知识边界的关键。

音乐是通用语言。它是唯一能让人们无论来自哪里都能团结在一起的东西。

释义：在富贵时，朋友无数；一旦遭遇困难，却无人帮助。