飘风不可以调宫商，巧妇不可以主中馈，词章之士不可以治国家。
旋风不能奏出动听的音乐；心灵手巧的妇人未必能够主持好饮食家务；（只会）做文章的读书人不能够治理好国家。
未来属于那些拥抱变化并推动转型的人。
食欲，对食物的渴望，是胃腺持续而强大的刺激物。
数据库应该是现实的忠实模型，而不是对现实的扭曲。
我们这年代的人读书太多而不聪明，想得太多而不美丽。
解释：砍伐树木不把树根砍掉，必能重新生长；堵塞水不把源头堵住，必会重新流出；消除祸患不铲除产生祸患的根基，祸患还会再生。
I don't need a reason to be grateful.
"The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all."
The power of abstraction is that it allows us to ignore details that are not relevant to the task at hand.