Innovation is seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.

对物品过于在意会毁了你。只是——如果你对某样东西足够在意，它就会拥有自己的生命，不是吗？而事物的全部意义——美丽的事物——不就是它们将你连接到更大的美吗？