过去总是紧张的，未来是完美的。

Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

The greatest predictor of a novel's quality is the novelist's willingness to confront the unlovely truth about himself or herself.

The power of abstraction is that it allows us to reason about systems at a higher level, without getting bogged down in the details.