最好的程序是这样写的：计算机可以快速执行它们，人类可以清楚地理解它们。理想情况下，程序员是一位散文家，他使用传统的美学和文学形式以及数学概念来传达算法的工作原理，并说服读者结果是正确的。

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.

罗纳德·李维斯特

万物都有代谢，花开之后便是花落！不知明年花开之日。

霍达

真正的恋爱婚姻，无论形式如何简便，总之是神圣的婚姻。

柏拉图

后见之明对历史学家乃至回忆录作者非常有用，但遗憾的是，实践中的政治家却无法拥有。

The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practising politicians.

撒切尔

禅修不仅仅是坐在那里，也是在行动中体现出来。

铃木俊隆

Technology will be the great enabler of our net-zero ambitions.

技术将成为我们实现净零排放雄心的巨大推动力。

安迪·塞缪尔

我觉得可能党员的工作比儿女私情更重要吧。反正演也演了，吻也吻了，剪也剪了，请你们不要再问了。

周润发

优雅之于身体，犹如良知之于思想。

弗朗索瓦·德·拉罗什富科

爱自己是终身浪漫的开始。

奥斯卡·王尔德

I think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand 'I have a problem, it is the Government's job to cope with it!' or 'I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it!' 'I am homeless, the Government must house me!' and so they are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first.

我认为我们已经经历了一个时期，太多的孩子和人们被引导去理解“我有一个问题，这是政府的工作来应对它！”或者“我有一个问题，我会去获得补助来应对它！”“我无家可归，政府必须给我住房！”所以他们把问题抛给社会，而社会是谁？没有这种东西！只有个人男性和女性以及家庭，除了通过人民，政府什么也做不了，而人民首先会照顾自己。

撒切尔

有了图书馆，你就是自由的，不会被暂时的政治气候所限制。它是最民主的机构，因为没有人——绝对没有人——能告诉你该读什么、什么时候读以及如何读。

"With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one—but no one at all—can tell you what to read and when and how."