对付一个不自由的世界的唯一方法就是变得如此绝对自由，以至于你的存在本身就是一种反抗。

Though the Chinese should adore APL, it's FORTRAN they put their money on.

To write is to breathe, to live, to exist.

做出伟大工作的唯一方法就是热爱你所做的事情。

The concept of a legal system presupposes the concept of a rule.

That's exhilarating if you're doing well, and very crushing if you're not. It leads, in the worst cases -- in the analysis of a sociologist like Emil Durkheim -- it leads to increased rates of suicide. There are more suicides in developed, individualistic countries than in any other part of the world. And some of the reason for that is that people take what happens to them extremely personally -- they own their success, but they also own their failure.