The past is a shadow that follows us, always present, always influencing our steps.

Good research is like a good story—it has a beginning, a middle, and an end, and it holds together logically.

I am not interested in the average, I am interested in the extreme.

The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are able to love, to share, to go into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

计算机能否思考的问题就像潜艇能否游泳的问题。

Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems—but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.