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.

最基本的人类渴望是被认可为人，而最基本的人类恐惧是被视为不如人。

Among thousands of people, you meet those you've met. Through thousands of years, across the boundless wilderness of time, you happen to meet them, neither earlier nor a bit too late. There is nothing to be said except to ask lightly, "Oh, you're here too?"

In market design, simplicity often leads to better outcomes.

文学不是一场道德选美比赛。它的力量来自声音的权威，而非灵魂的纯洁。

为了生存，我们必须适应。为了繁荣，我们必须创新。

I'm not afraid to take risks because I know that's where growth happens.

The past is always changing, because we are always changing our relationship to it.