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.

I think that it's important to surround yourself with people who inspire and support you.

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

一个好人生命中最美好的部分：他那些微小、无名、被遗忘的善行和爱。

最好的技术是能解决实际问题的技术。

The world is full of people who will help you manufacture tornados so you can later claim to have survived them.