I think it's merely the randomness of the winning and losing process that I want to stress, because the emphasis nowadays is so much on the justice of everything, and politicians always talk about justice. Now I'm a firm believer in justice, I just think that it's impossible. So we should do everything we can to pursue it, but we should always remember that whoever is facing us, whatever has happened in their lives, there will be a strong element of the haphazard. That's what I'm trying to leave room for; otherwise, it can get quite claustrophobic.

You don't have to hold a position to be a leader.

宇宙可能从一个非常平滑和均匀的状态开始，然后演变成我们今天看到的复杂和有结构的宇宙。

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

Innovation is seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

我们俩（沃伦-巴菲特）都坚持几乎每天都有大量时间坐下来思考。这在美国商界非常罕见。我们阅读和思考。

生物信息学的挑战不仅仅是存储数据，而是使其有意义。

最好的书是让你改变的书。