Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself.

The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

集合起一百个伟大头脑，就会得到一个大傻瓜。

Investors should be wary of anyone who promises guaranteed returns.

Don't be defined by what you didn't know or didn't do.

我知道你是来杀我的。开枪吧，懦夫，你只是要杀一个人。