The power of a man, is his present means, to obtain some future apparent good.

Your smarts will come in handy because you will travel in a land of marvels. We humans -- plodding as we are -- will astonish ourselves. We'll invent ways to generate clean energy and a lot of it. Atom by atom， we'll assemble tiny machines that will enter cell walls and make repairs. This month comes the extraordinary but also inevitable news that we've synthesized life. In the coming years， we'll not only synthesize it， but we'll engineer it to specifications. I believe you'll even see us understand the human brain. Jules Verne， Mark Twain， Galileo， Newton -- all the curious from the ages would have wanted to be alive most of all right now. As a civilization， we will have so many gifts， just as you as individuals have so many individual gifts as you sit before me.

建筑的本质在于人们聚集、互动和体验生活的空间。

DNA does not lie, but it requires interpretation.

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing.

艺术应该扰乱舒适者，安慰受扰者。

每一场比赛都是提升的新机会。

我对人类的状况感兴趣，对活着的意义感兴趣，对存在的本质感兴趣。