The core competitiveness of an enterprise is culture, not products.

The darkness within us is what makes us human. Acknowledging it is the first step towards true strength.

Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost.

天下人最能享受的是个“闲”字，但是闲适要从勤俭中得到。而天下最便宜的是个“勤”字，然而勤奋是从闲暇中做出。

"Die Erinnerung ist das einzige Paradies, aus dem wir nicht vertrieben werden können."

Pros are just amateurs who know how to gracefully recover from their mistakes.

There's a real correlation between a society that tells people that they can do anything, and the existence of low self-esteem. So that's another way in which something quite positive can have a nasty kickback. There is another reason why we might be feeling more anxious --about our careers, about our status in the world today, than ever before. And it's, again, linked to something nice. And that nice thing is called meritocracy.