One isn't born one's self. One is born with mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas—and you have to work through it all.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

关于教育的斗争不仅仅是关于知识的斗争，也是关于身份、欲望和未来本身的斗争。

The power of a computational model is not just in its ability to compute, but in its ability to generalize from specific instances.

每个侦探都背负着自己的黑暗。

Failure is interesting—it’s part of making progress. You never learn from success, but you do learn from failure.

使意念沉稳，任何事理都能通达；有志发愤图强，任何难事都能成功。

  有些书应该只是尝试一下，有些应该被吸收，而有极少数书应该被咀嚼和消化。