The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

最艰难的决定往往需要在短期收益和长期影响之间取得平衡。

要创造原创的东西，你必须愿意失败。

当你解决一个数学问题时，你不仅得到了答案，还理解了为什么这是答案。

计算机科学的美在于它能够建模并解决现实世界的问题。