"I write to find out what I think."

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

If you want to grow, you must be willing to adapt and learn from every challenge.

Our quarries don't just produce stone - they produce opportunities.

The idea that we will make a society where literally everybody is graded, the good at the top, bad at the bottom, exactly done as it should be, is impossible. There are simply too many random factors: accidents, accidents of birth, accidents of things dropping on people's heads, illnesses, etc. We will never get to grade them, never get to grade people as they should.

The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.

译文：不肯向优秀的人学习，这便是失败的原因了。

The journey of scientific discovery is as important as the destination.