创造力的发动机是提出一个问题：“一定要这样吗？” 政治改革、科学发展、关系改善以及更好的书都是提出这个问题后出现的。《哲学的慰藉》

The community is a fictitious body， composed of the individual persons who are considered as constituting as it were its members.

天才不会犯错。他的错误是自愿的，是发现的门户。

Love is a fragile thing. You have to treat it like a living organism or else it’ll disappear.

The more you express yourself, the more you betray yourself.

The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.

真正的增长来自于理解土地并与之合作，而不是对抗它。