People are curious. A few people are. They will be driven to find things out, even trivial things. They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.

我是一个赢家，我喜欢赢。

You can't manage what you don't measure.

出自《海国图志序》。善于学习外国的长处，就能够征服外国;不善于学习外国的长处就会被外国所征服。

An actor I know is a dimwit who can't count higher than the fingers on his hands. But once he gets on stage, the audience goes so wild, you'd think the house would split in two.