To be a writer is to be a spy on life.
So what I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas, and make sure that we own them; that we are truly the authors of our own ambitions. Because it's bad enough not getting what you want, but it's even worse to have an idea of what it is you want, and find out, at the end of the journey, that it isn't, in fact, what you wanted all along.
我们工作中最大的回报是知道自己带来了改变。
提高就是要改变,而要达到完美就要不断改变。
如果你想有所作为，就必须愿意承担风险。
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
当教授坚持说计算机科学是X但不是Y时，请对他的研究生抱有同情心。