小说是理解他者最强大的工具。

抽象允许一种自由，而具象有时无法做到。

I’m not playing for the records. I play tennis because I love it.

艺术家的职责是创造美。

Get rich or die tryin'.

图书馆的存在本身就提供了最好的证据，证明我们对人类的未来仍可抱有希望。

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.