A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.
No matter what difficulties I encounter, I will continue to sing.
The architecture of cognition constrains the forms of knowledge representation.
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. Medicine, law, business, engineering: these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love...these are what we stay alive for.
——1997年9月26日在美国加州圣地亚哥市发表演讲
The greatest risk in farming is standing still while the world changes around us.
没有风险的胜利，就没有荣耀的凯旋。