外交的任务是延长决策的时间。

【译文】君子不会根据言论推举选拔人才，也不会因为某人有缺点错误而废弃他的言论。

如果行善不是发自内心，那就不会长久。比如被捐款、被做义工等等，都是一锤子买卖，因为不是他自愿的。

"The interplay between mathematics and computer science is a rich source of deep and beautiful results."

I don’t think you should spend much time being unhappy about the bad breaks. You get a lot of them, but you also get a lot of good ones. The thing to do is just to maximize your odds of using the good ones and minimizing the effects of the bad ones.