"Memory is what we thought we'd forgotten; it's what we have forgotten we've forgotten."

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

Go to heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

"The past is always present, shaping who we are in ways we don’t always understand."

对心灵的研究就是对生活应对机制的研究。

La luz de Andalucía no se pinta, se escribe.

商业的本质是解决问题，而不是制造问题。

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

It's probably as unlikely that you would nowadays become as rich and famous as Bill Gates, as it was unlikely in the17th century that you would accede to the ranks of the French aristocracy. But the point is, it doesn't feel that way. It's made to feel, by magazines and other media outlets, that if you've got energy, a few bright ideas about technology, a garage -- you, too, could start a major thing.