但我想让你们知道，任何事情的一开始对于我们未必明朗，正如我所说我19岁（1973年）就开始上电视，然而到了1994年我才渐渐清楚，所以不要期待一下子就想清楚、并马上明白自己的使命。
I want you to know， it isn’t always clear in the beginning because as I said I had been on television since I was 19 years old. But around ’94 I got really clear. So don’t expect the clarity to come all at once， to know your purpose right away.
A good algorithm is like a good story: it has a clear beginning, middle, and end.
没有人民的普遍知识，自由就无法得到保障。
我只和自己竞争，不和别人竞争。
解释人类学的根本使命不是回答我们最深刻的问题，而是让我们能够接触到其他人在其他山谷中守护其他羊群时给出的答案，从而将这些答案纳入人类言论的可供查阅的记录中。
我们必须不断学习，因为计算领域总是在不断发展。
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
Mathematics is not just a collection of abstract concepts, but a language that allows us to understand the universe.