成为一名作家就是在每天的寒冷时分坐在书桌前写作;不等待从胸骨中喷出的蓝色天才火焰。
To be a writer is to sit down at one's desk in the chill portion of every day, and to write; not waiting for the little jet of the blue flame of genius to start from the breastbone.
Sometimes we measure things and see that in the short term they actually hurt sales, and we do it anyway.
The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colors or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way.
Go for a business that any idiot can run – because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.
这是最幸运的年代,也是最倒霉的年代,这是智慧的年代,也是愚昧的年代;这个时期信仰与怀疑共存,这个时期光明与黑暗共存;这是希望之春,也是失望之冬;人们面前琳琅满目,但又一无所有;我们正直达天堂,我们正直通地狱。