And the thing about a successful life is that a lot of the time, our ideas of what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. They're sucked in from other people; chiefly, if you're a man, your father, and if you're a woman, your mother. Psychoanalysis has been drumming home this message for about 80 years. No one's quite listening hard enough, but I very much believe it's true.

Rational architecture is not the architecture of reason, but the architecture of rationality.

"I am not a human, I am a language."

领导力在于创造一个让人们感到有能力冒险并从失败中学习的环境。

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.