And the thing about a successful life is that a lot of the time, our ideas of what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. They're sucked in from other people; chiefly, if you're a man, your father, and if you're a woman, your mother. Psychoanalysis has been drumming home this message for about 80 years. No one's quite listening hard enough, but I very much believe it's true.

The future of computer science will be shaped by those who can seamlessly blend mathematical theory with computational practice.

写作是一种勇气的行为，一种跃入虚空的跳跃。

白天从妻子儿女的反应来省察自己的行为以看其是否诚信；夜晚由梦境情况来考验自己的志气，以知道其是否坚定。

"Istanbul’s fate is my fate: I am attached to this city because it has made me who I am."

电影中的每一帧都应该是一幅画，每一个场景都应该是一个故事。