To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller， is to lay a tax on industry and economy； to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors.

工程师文化就是追求极致，但也要接受不完美。

The only obsession everyone wants: ‘love.’ People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you’re whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You’re whole, and then you’re cracked open.

To create is to breathe life into the lifeless, to give form to the formless.

The challenges in our lives are there to strengthen our convictions. They are not there to run us over.