The human mind is not just a passive recorder of reality but an active constructor of it.

Machine learning is the science of getting computers to act without being explicitly programmed.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. To put to rout all that was not life. And not, when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived.

The poet's task is to find the eternal in the transient.

The past is always present, whether we acknowledge it or not.

没有自然光的房间就不是房间。

The constant pursuit of wisdom is the highest goal of life.