"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead."

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

I’m not perfect, and I don’t pretend to be.

人们为了被认可，会去认可别人。

The future of agriculture lies in the integration of traditional knowledge with cutting-edge biotechnology.

预测未来的最好方式就是创造未来

And what I noted, since the really big ideas carry 95 percent of the freight, it wasn’t at all that hard for me to pick up all the big ideas and all the big disciplines and make them a standard part of my mental routines. Once you have the ideas, of course, they are no good if you don’t practice. You don’t practice, you lose it.