"Writing is a way to make sense of our hopes."
There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other.
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.
烦恼本身就是菩提，生死本身就是涅槃。
就天性而言，无论是父子兄弟以及天地万物，皆是一体存在，那一种物体与我相异，能有此观点则心性形体清楚分辨。就外在而言，不论功名富贵及身体四肢皆是躯壳，皆非我所有，有此观点，则世俗的欲念不存在。
I think the most important thing in life is to be able to look at yourself in the mirror and like what you see.