The secret to success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.

We need to focus on the actual outcomes of policies, not just their intended effects.

物理学家必须有一种信念，即宇宙是由理性且可理解的规律所支配的。

Literature is the most subversive of all arts because it works in secret, in the reader’s mind.

天下人了解自己，那么就与天下人同甘苦共患难；天下人不了解自己，就巍然在天地之间而无所畏惧这是上等的勇敢。与孟子的“达则兼济天下，穷则独善其身”有异曲同工之妙，只要自己行得正，心中有善，或者要做的是超前的大事业，而别人不理解自己，有“燕雀安知鸿鹄之志”的无奈，也无需畏惧别人的眼光，坚守自我。

We need to create technologies that enhance our humanity, not diminish it.

在即将来临的困难时期，死亡比生存更为可取。