I want the reader to feel something is astonishing—not the 'what happens' but the way everything happens.

The true measure of success is the impact you have on others.

You’ve got to have models in your head. And you’ve got to array your experience—both vicarious and direct—on this latticework of models. You may have noticed students who just try to remember and pound back what is remembered. Well, they fail in school and in life. You’ve got to hang experience on a latticework of models in your mind.

The key to solving complex problems is breaking them down into simpler ones.

太阳直到它的光芒被这座建筑反射才知道它有多美。