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.
贫穷并不是一种高贵的经历，它带来恐惧、压力、有时还有绝望，它意味着许许多多的羞辱和艰辛。靠自己的努力摆脱贫穷，确实可以引以自豪，但贫穷本身只有对傻瓜而言才是浪漫的。
思想的功能是引导行动走向成功的结果。
"When you're able to make people dance, you're able to make people forget about their problems for a while."
所以发表言论有三条准则,哪三种准则呢？第一是审查本质,第二是推理情理,第三是用于实践。
当地社区拥有关于海洋生物的祖先智慧，我们在创新之前必须倾听。
形式化方法不是银弹，但它们是追求可靠系统的重要工具。
"The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success."
Wood has a memory. It remembers the forest. It remembers the tree.