"Istanbul’s fate is my fate: I am attached to this city because it has made me who I am."

"To write is to resist the silence of the world."

There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false.

在输赢的过程中有太多偶然，今日我们太讲求所有事情的正义和公平，政治人物总是在谈论正义，我非常支持正义，我只是觉得那不可能，我们应该尽力，尽力去追求正义，但我们也应该记得，我们所面对的，无论在他们人生中发生过什么，偶然总是一个强烈的因素，我希望大家留一点空间这么想，不然真令人有一种幽闭恐怖症的感觉。

"Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence."

我一直觉得自己是个外国人，即使在自己的国家也是如此。

尊重自然，顺应自然。

"Quantum cryptography is not about keeping secrets, it's about knowing when someone is trying to steal them."

夜晚是一块画布，而我们是颜料。