牛马生着四足，这是天性；给马戴上笼头，给牛穿上鼻绳，就是人为。所以说，不要人为毁灭天性，不要用故意造作去毁灭天命，不要以德行去为名利殉葬，谨守天道勿使丧失，这就叫返归本真。

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.

中国汽车工业要实现从大到强的转变，必须依靠科技创新。

相较于挠一下我的手指，毁灭整个世界并不违反理智。

The more we understand our biases, the more we can use them to our advantage.

Optimism is a learned skill.

任何牺牲基本自由以换取短暂安全的人，最后既得不到安全也得不到自由。（放弃基本的自由以换取苟安的人，终归失去自由，也得不到安全。）