“Ideas do not always come in a flash but by diligent trial-and-error ex...” — Charles K. Kao Quote

Ideas do not always come in a flash but by diligent trial-and-error experiments that take time and thought.

When information is infinite, individual pieces of information are worth nothing.

When you are young, you are fervent about the things you believe in.

Because of the earlier loss of the two elder siblings, my brother and I lived a very pampered and protected life. Nursemaids kept constant watch. With my parents busy at dinner parties and social events, we only met them as if for a daily royal audience.

The primary school I attended in Shanghai was a very liberal one, established by scholars who had return from an education in France. The children of leading families were enrolled there, including the son of a well-known man believed to be a top gangster of the underworld!

I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman.

My boring, mundane, diligent kind of golf works sometimes. Actually, it works all the time. And sometimes, on the greatest stages, it really does flourish.

Like men, women have to be diligent and work hard.

I cannot say that I was a particularly diligent student, especially during the lower grades.

I think we Chinese are just as capable, as diligent, as hardworking, as peace-loving, and as creative as people everywhere.