The severity of Russian laws is alleviated by the fact that it is not obligatory to execute them.

We never take our success for granted.

“如果你活到100岁，那么我希望活到100岁减去1天，这样我的生活中就不会失去你啦。”

"The most important thing in empirical work is to be clear about the question you are trying to answer."

美德不在于避免恶习，而在于不渴望它。

Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, well, it's a bad book. But if an architect makes a bad building, it's a bad life.

永远不要停止质疑如何做得更好——自满是进步的敌人。