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If you're not doing some things that are crazy, then you're doing the wrong things.

The best customer experience is no experience.

"文学的力量在于它能够让我们看到自己无法直接体验的生活。"

当你听取不同的观点时，才能做出最好的决定。

实现明天的唯一限制是我们今天的疑虑。

If you ask an economist what’s driven economic growth, it’s been major advances in things that mattered – the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.