一本好书应该让你在读完时感到些许疲惫。在阅读时，你经历了多个生命。

Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?

——1997年7月30日在拉斯维加斯美国全国州长协会大会上发言

"Every story has a thousand truths."

What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton hotel on its peak.

君子这样来造船车,所以属下都效法他,因此他的人民就会饥寒交迫,不得不做奸邪的事。奸邪的事情一多,刑罚就重,刑罚一重,国家就混乱。国君若真的希望天下太平而不希望天下大乱的话,如果要做船车,就不能不节俭。

作家的职责是说出真相，即使真相令人不安。

世界是一切事实的总和。