Writing is a way of discovering what you think, of exploring the world and your place in it.

At that age， I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. I'd calculate our gas mileage -- figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending. I'd been hearing an ad campaign about smoking. I can't remember the details， but basically the ad said， every puff of a cigarette takes some number of minutes off of your life: I think it might have been two minutes per puff. At any rate， I decided to do the math for my grandmother. I estimated the number of cigarettes per days， estimated the number of puffs per cigarette and so on. When I was satisfied that I'd come up with a reasonable number， I poked my head into the front of the car， tapped my grandmother on the shoulder， and proudly proclaimed， "At two minutes per puff， you've taken nine years off your life！"

我们从事娱乐行业，但我们也从事启迪行业。

金钱不会改变人，而是揭露他们。

故事是同理心的机器。与逻辑或理性相比，故事是关于情感的，这些情感被编码在细节中。

数学之美在于它能够精确而优雅地描述自然界的基本法则。