The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

通过文学，我们可以理解那些我们无法直接体验的生活。

There are places in the world where the old gods still walk.

"世界是一本书，而书是一座监狱。"

在这个生活中，最好的手术是耐心的手术。

If you want to succeed, you must be willing to take risks and learn from failure.

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.

现实主义不是复制自然，而是理解其本质。

The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.