Quotes once impressed me.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- NOT Aristotle
虽然父亲生前从未拥有财富、权势,但他始终是一个快乐自得又具有丰富内涵的人,我们应该以拥有一位这样的亲人而深感欣慰。
-- 查令十字街84号
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
-- BY ROBERT FROST
很多时候重要的不是知识,而是切身感受到的力量,靠近厉害的人,你就会慢慢变得厉害,没想法也会变得有想法,小想法会变成大想法。
-- 经济学家 周其仁
A language isn't something you learn so much as something you join.
-- Arika Okrent
Using vi is like being in a relationship, you are involved. Using Emacs is like a marriage, you are committed, in large part because there is so much to learn
-- Bryan Berry
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to
gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead,
teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
-- Antoine de Saint Exupery
Say to them,
say to the down-keepers,
the sun-slappers,
the self-soilers,
the harmony-hushers,
"even if you are not ready for day
it cannot always be night."
You will be right.
For that is the hard home-run.
Live not for battles won.
Live not for the-end-of-the-song.
Live in the along.
-- Speech To The Young : Speech To The Progress-Toward - Poem by Gwendolyn Brooks
人所拥有的任何东西,都可以被剥夺,唯独人性最后的自由---也就是在任何境遇中选择一己态度和生活方式的自由---不能被剥夺。
-- /Viktor Emil Frankl, Man's Searching For Meaning/
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedom --- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
The rights and privileges of first-class citizens
- to be named by variables.
- to be passed as arguments to procedures.
- to be returned as values of procedures.
- to be incorporated into data structures.
-- /Lecture2A_MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs/
New and shiny is what clients want, boring and dependable is what owners want.
-- Hacker News comments on /Happiness is a Boring Stack/
Been telling myself, all I need is 20 seconds of insane courage and something amazing will happen.
- All I need is 20 seconds of insane courage, to put on my running shoes.
- All I need is 20 seconds of insane courage, to make that phone call to potential customers.
- All I need is 20 seconds of insane courage, to ask for a date.
20 seconds, never been easier for me.
-- Movie /We Bought a Zoo/
The key to understanding complicated things is knowing what not to look at,
not to compute, not to think.
-- Genald Jay Sussman