"The most dangerous phrase in business is 'We've always done it this way.'"

The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability.  

心之外没有事物，心之外没有事情，心之外没有道理。

活着就是被标记。活着就是改变，获得故事的话语，这是我们凡人真正知道的唯一庆祝。

The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.