唯一比被人议论更糟糕的事，就是无人议论。

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.

One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

All the effects of nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws.

Data abstraction is the reduction of a particular body of data to a simplified representation of the whole.