成功是个糟糕的老师。它诱使聪明人以为自己不会失败。
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
孩子们需要故事来帮助他们应对生活的复杂性。
我是个失败的诗人。也许每个小说家都想先写诗,发现自己做不到,然后尝试短篇小说,这是诗歌之后要求最高的形式。如果连这都失败了,他才会转向写小说。
Every problem in NP can be reduced to the satisfiability problem, which is the cornerstone of computational complexity theory.