在我们的伊甸园中,苹果放弃了汇编语言:使用语言浪费机器周期是有罪的。现在,LISP机器允许LISP程序员放弃胸罩和无花果叶。
Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.
You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.
巴菲特批评自己在航空业投资的错误时说
语言是我们塑造现实最强大的工具。
The most dangerous phrase in business is 'We've always done it this way.'