You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we’ve come up with doing that is through companies.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

The power of abstraction is what allows mathematics to transcend the limits of physical reality.

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

我们必须准备好承担一些风险，但必须是经过计算的风险。

人生中唯一真正的失败是不忠于自己所知的最好。