C语言古怪、有缺陷，但却取得了巨大的成功。

当你尝试新事物时，你永远不知道会发生什么。这一切都是实验性的。

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

"Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another."