Writing is an act of loss, every time. – Russel Davies (Desert Island)

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Do the faults of our past determine what we deserve in the future? —【Jodi Picoult】

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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

–【CHARLES DARWIN】

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You are like gentle guests, you need only fire and a roof overhead.
–【ANAKREON】

你像是温柔的客人，你只需要火，及头顶一片屋檐。
–【希腊古诗】

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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
–【Niels Bohr 】

专家的定义是: 在一个非常狭窄的领域， 把所有可能碰到的错误全都触犯过了的人。
–【玻尔】

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It’s okay to lose a lot of money, as long as it’s on purpose.
–【Doonesbury comic strip by Garry Trudeau 】

亏老多钱也没关系,只要是故意的。
–【特鲁多<杜恩斯伯里>漫画】

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Maximize the serendipity around you.
–【Nassim Nicholas Taleb】

扩大偶然发现珍宝的运气。–【塔勒布】

*多接触不实用的, 不相干的, 不紧要的, 不确定的, 不熟悉的人和事 :)。

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People who spout “ideas are easy; execution is hard” don’t know what a good idea is.
The truth is, “Good ideas are hard, and then execution is routine.”
–【Anonymous】

宣称“点子容易，执行困难”的人根本不了解什么是好的点子。
事实是，“好点子最难得到，随后, 执行只是例行公事。” –【匿名】

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The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
–【Albert Einstein】

创新的秘诀在于知道怎样隐藏你所有灵感的来源。–【爱因斯坦】

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Conventional wisdom is often right. But when it is wrong, it can offer quite extraordinary opportunities.
–【Felix Dennis】

传统常识往往是对的。但错误的常识给违背常识的人提供了不可思议的机会。–【丹尼斯】

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Avoid becoming an administrator, or your job will consist of dealing with money and disputes.
–【Paul Graham】

避免成为一个行政管理员，否则你的工作将只是整日处理金钱和纠纷。–【格雷厄姆】

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The products suck! There’s no sex in them anymore!
–【Steve Jobs】

这些产品太臭! 里面根本没有性爱的火花! –【乔布斯】
注：商业周刊（1997年7月）。乔布斯重新掌舵苹果公司之际，对当时苹果产品的评价。

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It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble.
It’s the things we know that just ain’t so.
–【Josh Billings】

It is better to know less than to know so much that ain’t so.
–【Josh Billings】

让人陷入麻烦的往往是因为错误的知识, 而不是因为一无所知。–【比林斯】

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Deliberate practice is hard. It hurts. But it works.
–【Geoffrey Colvin】

勉强渐近自然。–【科尔万】

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When I was in my 20’s the two concepts that mattered were, “me” and “right now.” As I got older I began to understand the concept of “others” and “the future.”
— 【Steve Blank】

二十多岁时，我认为“我”和“现在”最重要。随着年龄增长，我才开始明白“他
人”与“未来”的概念。–【布兰客】

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A “wide” question has the beauty of sometimes veering off into unexpected and wholly valuable information.
— 【Mark Suster】

一个“宽泛”的（不具体的）提问，常带来意想不到的宝贵资讯。–【苏斯特尔】

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Meetings are a way to explore and serendipitously discover things.
— 【Mark Suster】

开会是一种探索并偶然发现珍宝的方式。–【苏斯特尔】

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Something bold is brewing. — 【StarBucks】

某种大胆妄为的东西正在酝酿。–【星巴克咖啡】

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Keep It Sophisticatedly Simple. — 【Arnold Zellner】

遵循KISS（接吻）的原则: 把事情做到复杂得简单的境界。–【策尔纳】芝加哥大学商学院教授

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The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. — 【Richard Feynman】

大自然的想象力比人类的想象力更牛。–【费曼】

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Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand. — 【Albert Einstein】

想象力比知识更重要。因为知识仅限于我们现在了解的事物，而想象力包含了整个已知世界，以及所有的未知事物。–【爱因斯坦】

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Every chance encounter is an opportunity for fate to play a role in our lives. Sometimes the moment passes by without notice, but other times it can take on a life of its own, stretching into a thread that connects two people, whether for a day or for a lifetime. These threads, each unique, each drawn from the chance encounter of a single moment, weave together into the wonderful and varied tapestry that forms the very fabric of our emotional lives. (Zhang, Nancy, http://www.nancy-zhang.com/2016/08/encounters.html)