The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.
Every nation is a story it tells about itself.
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
对付一个不自由的世界唯一的方法就是变得如此绝对自由，以至于你的存在本身就是一种反叛。
Diplomats should possess flexibility and adaptability to respond to rapidly changing international circumstances.