The past is a mirror, but we often see only what we want to see.

"I'd never given much thought to how I would die, but dying in the place of someone I love seems like a good way to go."

Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

宇宙用数学的语言说话，而我们是它谦逊的诠释者。