Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.

浅陋的人，不能和他谈论深奥的见解；愚蠢的人，不能和他谋划有智慧的事。井底之蛙，不能和它谈论东海的快乐。

The greatest gift is the gift of life itself.

在软件开发中，我们必须始终注意性能、复杂性和可维护性之间的权衡。

做农业要有耐心，要耐得住寂寞。