Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.

The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.

过去从未死去。它甚至不是过去。

I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend...I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don't last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend.

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.