"Books are the mirrors that reflect our souls."

The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.

"In the end, we'll all become stories."

在座各位都拥有许多天赋。我确信你们的天赋之一就是拥有精明能干的头脑。之所以如此确信，是因为入学竞争十分激烈，如果你们不能表现出聪明智慧，便没有资格进入这所学校。

永远不要停止质疑，即使答案似乎已经确定。

我不想成为统治者。我想成为反叛者。

构建软件系统最困难的部分是准确决定要构建什么。