"What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again."
我需要的是春天的蒲公英。那明亮的黄色意味着重生而不是毁灭。生命可以继续的承诺,无论我们的损失有多糟糕。它可以再次变得美好。
Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot.
The magic number 150 suggests that the size of our social networks is limited by the size of our brains.
Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.