You have to figure out what your own aptitudes are. If you play games where other people have the aptitudes and you don’t, you’re going to lose. And that’s as close to certain as any prediction that you can make. You have to figure out where you’ve got an edge. And you’ve got to play within your own circle of competence.

The only real knowledge is self-knowledge.

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

永远不要停止学习，因为生活永远不会停止教导。

天才和愚蠢之间的区别就是天才有它的限制。