"If you want to earn easy money, you really don't have to go to all the trouble of trying to lead the field." But it is that streak of enthusiasm in scientists and engineers to "pursue subjective perfection and develop their ideals to the utmost" which makes John Hsuan grit his teeth and soldier on.
「如果想賺輕鬆錢，實在不必辛辛苦苦跑那麼前面」，然而，就是科技人那麼一點「追求主觀心證的完美，將理想發揮到淋漓盡致」的熱情，讓宣明智咬緊牙關、不願放棄。