尽可能避免雇佣MBA。MBA项目不教人们如何创建公司。

如果你想要为挽救生命而从事汽车自动行驶事业的话，你需要知道这个技术绝不是能从哪个特定学科里学到的。1995年，我还是一个博士生的时候，我就已经对无人驾驶汽车感兴趣了。

I want to disappear into the universe, become part of it.

我们必须从灵魂中根除对未来所带来的一切恐惧和恐怖。

At that age， I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. I'd calculate our gas mileage -- figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending. I'd been hearing an ad campaign about smoking. I can't remember the details， but basically the ad said， every puff of a cigarette takes some number of minutes off of your life: I think it might have been two minutes per puff. At any rate， I decided to do the math for my grandmother. I estimated the number of cigarettes per days， estimated the number of puffs per cigarette and so on. When I was satisfied that I'd come up with a reasonable number， I poked my head into the front of the car， tapped my grandmother on the shoulder， and proudly proclaimed， "At two minutes per puff， you've taken nine years off your life！"

工会对工资和就业的影响常常被误解。