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.

Product is 1, marketing is 0. Without a good product, no amount of marketing is futile.

Complexity is not just about the number of components in a system, but about the nature of their interactions.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

解释：举出了典故却忘记了祖宗。

最危险的策略是分两步跳过峡谷。

"Literature is the memory of humanity."

我对我们如何展示自己和我们真实身份之间的差距感兴趣。