Anything truly novel is invented only during one’s youth， later one becomes more experienced more famous， and more blockheaded.

我不是那种因为成功就快乐的人。

I’m not a guy that’s going to let my love for my city down.

——〈在北京湖广会馆学界欢迎会的演说〉，1912年8月30日

Be a pro. Back up your back up. Have at least one physical backup and one backup in the cloud. Have more than one of each. How much would you pay to retrieve all your data， photos， notes， if you lost them？ Backups are cheap compared to regrets.

译文：谁的背后，没有人会说三道四呢，哪一个人不在别人面前议论他人。赏析：我们不管做得多么完美，背后都会有人评长论短，所以，只要我们行事问心无愧，光明磊落，就不必在乎世间的流言蜚语。

建筑是对空间的深思熟虑的创造。

"The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it."