The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.

The sea is history.

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.

I prefer to supervise the whole operations of the government myself rather than entrust the public business to subordinates.

有长远规划的人不会在意眼前的怨言，承担重大责任的人不会拘泥于细节！这大局观，太厉害了！并且要有远见卓识，不要被琐碎小事所束缚！

建筑是一种政治行为，它塑造了我们共同生活的方式。