出自先秦《荀子·解蔽》。大凡是人，往往都有惑于枝节问题而看不清大局的毛病。说明人性的弱点：看问题不全面，往往惑于表面现象，结果“只见树木，不见森林”，“捡了芝麻，丢了西瓜”。

You have to believe in the reality of the world and the reality of the people in it.

写作中最持久的是风格，而风格是作家能用时间做出的最有价值的投资。

When [competitors are] in the shower in the morning, they're thinking about how they're going to get ahead of one of their top competitors. Here in the shower, we're thinking about how we are going to invent something on behalf of a customer.

I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.