I'm not a role model, I'm just a human being.

The past is always present, and the present is always past.

I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.

——2006年6月15日，盖茨在宣布将退出微软日常管理工作新闻发布会上的发言

If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.

If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer consensus, the kind of consensus that matters to adolescents or to many among the intelligentsia.

The true measure of our success in aquaculture will be what we leave behind for future generations.