So why do I talk about the benefits of failure？ Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was， and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
那么为什么我要谈论失败的好处呢？因为失败意味着剥离掉那些不必要的东西。我因此不再伪装自己、远离自我，而重新开始把所有精力放在对我最重要的事情上。
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."
作家必须相信他所做的是世界上最重要的事情。即使他知道这不是真的，他也必须坚持这种幻觉。
The mind is an instrument of survival before it is an instrument of thought.
Policy debates should be grounded in rigorous empirical analysis.
计算机科学的未来将由那些能够无缝融合数学理论与计算实践的人塑造。
So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.