"Books are a way to explore the world, to understand different perspectives, and to develop empathy."

We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and thinks too much to be beautiful.

这两者中间有着绝对的关联，一个告诉人们他们无所不能的社会，和缺乏自信有着绝对的关联。另一件好事也会带来坏影响的例子，还有一些其它原因造成我们对事业，对我们在世上的地位感到前所未有的焦虑，再一次地，它也和好的概念有关，这个好概念叫做“功绩主义”。

The stream of thought is the stream of life solving its problems.

"The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build."

生活是一份礼物，它赋予我们特权、机会和责任，通过变得更多来回报一些东西。

And the thing about a successful life is that a lot of the time, our ideas of what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. They're sucked in from other people; chiefly, if you're a man, your father, and if you're a woman, your mother. Psychoanalysis has been drumming home this message for about 80 years. No one's quite listening hard enough, but I very much believe it's true.

The political spirit tends to make men stand aloof from each other.