——约翰洛克为自己写的墓志铭

Purpose-driven companies outlast those focused solely on profit.

I think that's the single most important thing about writing: it's about making the familiar strange and the strange familiar.

定理当然是数学的永久财富。

我们有三个标准。如果它公开交易，有流动性并且服从模型，我们就交易它。

Writing is that neutral, composite, oblique space where our subject slips away, the negative where all identity is lost, starting with the very identity of the body writing.

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

In mathematics, the journey is often more important than the destination.

特斯拉的Roadster…这是一款双座电动跑车，性能卓越，实际上，它的加速能力超过任何一辆法拉利或是阿斯顿.马丁。而它的节能性是普锐斯的两倍。

The only real freedom is the freedom to imagine.