He describes himself as an early-to-bed, early-to-rise "country boy" with simple tastes. A professor at Chiao Tung says of him, "He'll never take a suggestion of yours unless you have good reason and full confidence in it."
他形容自己是「一向早睡早起，服裝土氣」的鄉下人；交大一位教授則在描述他時說：「如果沒有十足的理由，他不會接受你的意見」。