Failure is interesting—it’s part of making progress. You never learn from success, but you do learn from failure.
失败是有趣的——它是进步的一部分。你从成功中学不到什么,但从失败中可以学到很多。
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
And the thing about a successful life is that a lot of the time, our ideas of what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. They're sucked in from other people; chiefly, if you're a man, your father, and if you're a woman, your mother. Psychoanalysis has been drumming home this message for about 80 years. No one's quite listening hard enough, but I very much believe it's true.
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
I'm not afraid of the dark; I'm afraid of what's in it.
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.
The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.