Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

The problem is, if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you'll also, by implication, and in a far more nasty way, believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there. I nother words, your position in life comes to seem not accidental, but merited and deserved. And that makes failure seem much more crushing.

In the realm of theoretical computer science, we often find that the most profound insights come from the simplest ideas.

The biggest regret in life is giving up what should not be given up easily, and stubbornly persisting in what should not be persisted.

政府的质量比政府的形式更重要。