译文：从古至今英雄人物总是要经历磨难才能成就大业，而娇生惯养之辈总是缺少气概难以成就伟业。赏析：生于忧患，死于安乐。一个人要想成功必定要经历很多痛苦和艰难，如果人太安逸和舒适了，就会丧失斗志。

"The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it."

我不是悲观主义者，我是一个受过悲观主义训练的乐观主义者。

Art is a way of surviving the future.

Society can and does execute its own mandates， and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right， or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle， it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression， since， though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties， it leaves fewer means of escape， penetrating much more deeply into the details of life， and enslaving the soul itself.

【译文】凡是事物都有本和末，本末是一体的，不可以把本末分开为两段。

释义：有些事情并非由人的计划所能掌控，人的命运似乎早已安排好。