我们不能改变过去，但我们可以改变对过去的看法。
A writer’s life is a life of interruptions.
The design of a system should be guided by the principle of least surprise, where the behavior of components is intuitive and predictable.
建筑真正的考验是它如何老化。
People are curious. A few people are. They will be driven to find things out, even trivial things. They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.