The past does not belong to us; we belong to it.

I'm not a poet. I'm a trapeze artist.

一切都是数字。

That's exhilarating if you're doing well, and very crushing if you're not. It leads, in the worst cases -- in the analysis of a sociologist like Emil Durkheim -- it leads to increased rates of suicide. There are more suicides in developed, individualistic countries than in any other part of the world. And some of the reason for that is that people take what happens to them extremely personally -- they own their success, but they also own their failure.

你知道的越多，你就越意识到你不知道的越多。

The true investor welcomes volatility... a wildly fluctuating market means that irrationally low prices will periodically be attached to solid businesses.

The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with people smarter than they are.

Forgetting is the only victory over death.

"I think the best movies are made for one of two reasons: either to make a lot of money or because the filmmaker has something to say."

The future of computation lies not in faster processors, but in smarter algorithms.