The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.

艺术是过去与现在之间的对话。

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

The only person who cannot be helped is that person who blames others.

如果因为这些而损害夺取人民的衣食之资,仁义的人是不会去做的。