The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.

糟糕的战略不是缺乏战略，而是主动回避制定好战略的艰苦工作。

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

实现明天的唯一限制将是我们今天的疑虑。

To be a writer is to have a certain kind of sensitivity to the world, to be able to see what others do not see, to hear what others do not hear.