You can obsess about serving your customers/audience/clients， or you can obsess about beating the competition. Both work， but of the two， obsessing about your customers will take you further.

一个人如果吃不好，就无法好好思考、好好去爱、好好休息。

The soil remembers what we forget: respect it, and it will repay generations.

在年轻的时候，请接受能为自己提供陡峭的学习曲线和艰苦的磨炼机会的工作。最初的工作是为人生打基础的，不要为了暂时的声望而轻易地接受一份工作。

The only way to succeed is to be completely honest with yourself and others.

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."

Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.