A distributed system is one in which I can’t get any work done because some machine I’ve never heard of has crashed.

The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

We don't just manufacture furniture; we create environments where memories are made.

工作的乐趣在于一个词——卓越。知道如何做好一件事就是享受它。

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

理论见解常常导致实际突破，弥合抽象思想与现实世界应用之间的差距。

You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers.