The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.
如果罗马人被迫先学习拉丁语,他们就永远没有时间去征服世界。
金钱被高估了。真正新鲜的事物很少会需要很多钱。不然的话,百万富翁们应该早就垄断了对新事物的发明了,但他们并没有。相反,几乎所有的突破都来自那些缺钱的人,因为他们被迫不得不依靠自己的热情、坚持与才智,去找到新的方法。贫穷是创新上的优势。
我希望我的书能帮助孩子们以不同的方式看待世界,注意到那些微小的细节和隐藏的意义。
Innovation is at the heart of what we do, but it must be balanced with responsibility.
We don’t try to predict the future. We try to buy things that are cheap.
The writer must be a defender of the individual against the collective.
A good mathematician is lazy, but in a constructive way.
关于少年时期最喜欢的书“银河系漫游指南“: 它教会我最难的是提出问题。 一旦做到了,其它会变得很容易。