And the thing about a successful life is that a lot of the time, our ideas of what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. They're sucked in from other people; chiefly, if you're a man, your father, and if you're a woman, your mother. Psychoanalysis has been drumming home this message for about 80 years. No one's quite listening hard enough, but I very much believe it's true.

Curiosity and perseverance can change the world.

Modularity based on abstraction is the way things ought to be done.

人是存在的牧者。

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."