Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a stallholder in a market, it is always ourselves that we are describing.

一只眼睛的人可以用来看水平仪，有毒的石头可以用来治疗痈疽。

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

当我们为后代考虑而采石时，石头就变成了桥梁，而不仅仅是资源。

We can’t just keep doing things the way we’ve always done them. The world has changed, and so must we.

Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.