作家必须是一个异端，一个质疑所有绝对的人。
The writer must be a heretic, a questioner of all absolutes.
Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies.
即使你拥有世界上所有的天赋，如果不努力，也无济于事。