Society can and does execute its own mandates， and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right， or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle， it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression， since， though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties， it leaves fewer means of escape， penetrating much more deeply into the details of life， and enslaving the soul itself.

在石油行业取得成功不仅需要资本，还需要远见和不懈的执行。

我认为孩子们天生好奇，对新想法持开放态度，这是我在书中试图捕捉的东西。

"Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them."

The role of a newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

"We are all haunted by the past, and the past is always present."

The problem with people is that they forget to look at the big picture.

世界对于思考者是喜剧，对于感受者是悲剧。

每个数学问题都有一个解决方案；你只需要找到正确的视角。