艺术家的角色是从混乱中创造秩序，从困惑中带来清晰。
The artist's role is to create order out of chaos, to bring clarity to confusion.
宁可选择自由的贫困，也不愿选择奴隶般的富裕。
I don’t like to be ordinary. I like to be iconic.
I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.
有时候你必须迷失自己，才能找到自己。
提到当初的NBA“菜鸟”生活，姚明戏称
Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.