Stripe联合创始人：远见和实干，一个都不能少

    4. 你收到过的最好的建议是什么？

    “如果一个人不去解决重要的问题，那就意味着他也很难去从事重要的工作”，这句话来自理查德•汉明的著作《你和你的研究》（You and Your Research）一书，这句话或许是最好的生活建议。

    5. 如果你没有从事目前的工作，你会做什么？

    我或许会在别的地方从事或发现其他实用的东西吧，或者会待在一间小木屋中读书。

    6. 科技行业的哪个部门最让你兴奋？为什么？

    如果从系统地改变其他行业或从根本上打造全新产业的方面来说，软件业才真的是刚刚起步，但我对我们在其中所能发挥的作用感到兴奋。看看能源、教育、医疗、生物科技等领域的进步，特别是这些领域与软件的交集，没有一个不令人感到着迷。

    我认为把软件业视为“部门”并不确切，软件业和互联网已经越来越成为每个行业所依存的载体。

    7. 你最近在读什么书？

    瓦克拉夫•斯密的《创造20世纪》（Creating the Twentieth Century ），这本书值得推荐。在此之前读的罗伯特•拉夫林《驱动未来》（Powering the Future）也非常不错。今年我读过的两本最好的书分别是理查德•汉明的《科研工程的艺术》（The Art of Doing Science and Engineering）和米歇尔•沃德罗普的《造梦机器》（The Dream Machine）。

    8. 你平时有哪些娱乐活动？

    骑自行车、跑步、读书和编程。

    9. 你愿意终身追求的目标是什么？

    读完所有的书。

    10.你的第一份工作是什么？

    我13岁时曾和一个朋友开创过一家科技公司，但没开多久就关门了。我觉得当时的市场行情不好。（财富中文网）

    译者：唐昕昕   

    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.