"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 true measure of success is leaving a positive legacy for future generations.

If you say you want to automate cars and save people’s lives, the skills you need for that aren’t taught in any particular discipline. I know – I was interested in working on automating cars when I was a Ph.D. student in 1995.

保持饥饿，保持愚蠢。

We are all obsessed with conspiracies, and we are all conspiracy theorists.

The essence of computation is not just in the manipulation of symbols, but in the profound understanding of what those manipulations represent.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.