文学是对抗不宽容和狂热主义的最佳武器。

理论计算机科学不仅仅是关于算法和数据结构；它是关于理解计算的基本限制。

The problem is, if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you'll also, by implication, and in a far more nasty way, believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there. I nother words, your position in life comes to seem not accidental, but merited and deserved. And that makes failure seem much more crushing.

I write to make sense of my own existence.

书桌上不能有太多的书，心中则不能少书；这就好像鱼离了水则干枯，心中没有书则无寄托。