Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?

译文：古人最忌讳，表面对人顺从，背地里却反对。

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.

A writer's duty is to disturb the peace, to question the unquestionable, to challenge the status quo.

钢琴是我的初恋。那是我感觉最自在的地方。

阅读是作者和读者之间无声的对话。

The future of computing lies in specialized architectures.