Collaboration beats competition when the goal is meaningful progress.

Society can and does execute its own mandates， and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right， or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle， it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression， since， though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties， it leaves fewer means of escape， penetrating much more deeply into the details of life， and enslaving the soul itself.

The art of algorithm design is not just in solving problems, but in discovering new ways to think about them.

译文： 深敛沉着、敦厚持重是第一等资质，光明磊落、豪迈雄健是第二等资质，聪明机智、多才明辨是第三等资质。

金融危机不是资本主义的失败，而是金融体系的失败。

我不是政客，我是行为艺术家。

记忆是一种成就，一种更新。

The only way to deal with the pain of life is to embrace it.

Investing in local communities isn't charity—it's smart business.