"The novel is a place where you can explore the complexities of human nature without fear of judgment."

The structure of the international system, not the intentions of individual states, is the primary determinant of state behavior.

The future belongs to those who dare to dream and have the courage to pursue those dreams.

绘画是在纸上思考。

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

过去并非死寂之地，穿越它绝非徒劳之举。

The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.