????4. 你收到過的最好的建議是什么？

????“如果一個人不去解決重要的問題，那就意味著他也很難去從事重要的工作”，這句話來自理查德?漢明的著作《你和你的研究》（You and Your Research）一書，這句話或許是最好的生活建議。

????5. 如果你沒有從事目前的工作，你會做什么？

????我或許會在別的地方從事或發現其他實用的東西吧，或者會待在一間小木屋中讀書。

????6. 科技行業的哪個部門最讓你興奮？為什么？

????如果從系統地改變其他行業或從根本上打造全新產業的方面來說，軟件業才真的是剛剛起步，但我對我們在其中所能發揮的作用感到興奮。看看能源、教育、醫療、生物科技等領域的進步，特別是這些領域與軟件的交集，沒有一個不令人感到著迷。

????我認為把軟件業視為“部門”并不確切，軟件業和互聯網已經越來越成為每個行業所依存的載體。

????7. 你最近在讀什么書？

????瓦克拉夫?斯密的《創造20世紀》（Creating the Twentieth Century ），這本書值得推薦。在此之前讀的羅伯特?拉夫林《驅動未來》（Powering the Future）也非常不錯。今年我讀過的兩本最好的書分別是理查德?漢明的《科研工程的藝術》（The Art of Doing Science and Engineering）和米歇爾?沃德羅普的《造夢機器》（The Dream Machine）。

????8. 你平時有哪些娛樂活動？

????騎自行車、跑步、讀書和編程。

????9. 你愿意終身追求的目標是什么？

????讀完所有的書。

????10.你的第一份工作是什么？

????我13歲時曾和一個朋友開創過一家科技公司，但沒開多久就關門了。我覺得當時的市場行情不好。（財富中文網）

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????4. What is the best advice you ever received?

????"If you do not work on an important problem, it's unlikely you'll do important work." That's from You and Your Research by Richard Hamming, which is a generally good source of life advice.

????5. What would you do if you weren't working at your current job?

????Probably trying to build or discover something useful somewhere else. Or in a cabin, reading books.

????6. What technology sector excites you most?

????Software is still fairly early in the process of both systematically rearranging other industries and enabling fundamentally new things, and I'm excited by the ways in which we can help facilitate that. What's happening in energy, education, health care, biotechnology, and so on -- especially the intersection between those fields and software -- is also fascinating.

????I don't think it's really accurate to look at software as a "sector;" software and the Internet are increasingly the atmosphere in which every other business exists.

????7. What was the last book you read?

????Creating the Twentieth Century by Vaclav Smil -- highly recommended -- and just before that, Powering the Future by Robert Laughlin, which was also pretty good. The best two books I've read this year are The Art of Doing Science and Engineering by Richard Hamming and The Dream Machine by Mitchell Waldrop.

????8. What do you do for fun?

????Cycling, running, reading, programming.

????9. What is one goal that you would like to accomplish during your lifetime?

????Read all the books.

????10. What was your first job?

????A friend and I tried to start a technology company when we were 13. It didn't go very far. I blame market conditions.