The best leaders are those who empower others to lead.

The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.

If oxen and horses and lions had hands and could paint with their hands and produce works of art as men do, horses would paint the forms of the gods like horses, and oxen like oxen, and they would make their bodies in accordance with the form that each species itself possesses.

——2002年6月温铁军在清华大学的一次讲座

我们都会死去，所有人，多么荒谬！这种孤独的事实应该让我们彼此相爱可是并没有。我们在琐事中变得恐惧平庸，我们被虚无啃噬。