Data is the new oil, but extracting value is the key.

I must confess that I never could see any beauty in her. Her face is too thin; her complexion has no brilliancy; and her features are not at all handsome. Her nose wants character; there is nothing marked in its lines. Her teeth are tolerable, but not out of the common way; and as for her eyes, which have sometimes been called so fine, I could never see anything extraordinary in them.

The beauty of topological insulators lies in their robustness; their surface states are protected by symmetry and topology, making them immune to certain types of disorder.

——赖忠诚之精神感人之深，国民革命军因此而起，1911年

"Books are the keys to imagination, and imagination is the key to the future."

社会戏剧是在冲突情境中产生的和谐或不和谐过程的单位。

Don't search for defining moments because they will never come. The moment that define you have already happened, and they will already happen again.

如果你一直重读上一章，就无法开始人生的新篇章。

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

为了成功，你必须愿意失败。