You don’t need a fancy degree to succeed—you need guts and common sense.
The fact is that every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
文学不仅仅是记录历史,它还能够塑造未来。
The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague.