The art of competing, I’d learned from track, was the art of forgetting, and I now reminded myself of that fact. You must forget your limits. You must forget your doubts, your pain, your past.

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

一个公司不应沉迷于光芒四射，因为光芒不会持久。

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity, not a threat.

自然选择是已知唯一能够构建功能复杂性的自然过程。