The study of mathematics is the indispensable basis for all intellectual and spiritual progress.
句法糖引起分号的癌症。
科学中最重要的就是不要害怕提出问题。
过去从未死去,它甚至还未过去。
A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it. But it is true to say that you are open to all the winds, some of them icy indeed. You are out on your own, out on a limb. You find no shelter, no protection — unless you lie — in which case of course you have constructed your own protection and, it could be argued, become a politician.