There are three things I have always loved and never understood—art, music, and women.

I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.

编程是告诉另一个人我们希望计算机做什么的艺术。

Diplomacy is to achieve win-win results through compromise, not to seek victory through confrontation.