The strictness of Russian laws is softened by the non-obligatory nature of their execution.

我不是榜样，我是目标模型。

Friends congratulate me after a quarterly-earnings announcement and say, 'Good job, great quarter.' And I'll say, 'Thank you, but that quarter was baked three years ago.'

"The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn."

意识不是一个实体而是一个过程

We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.