城市是一个伟大的人工制品，是人类文明的最高作品。

To create is to live twice.

The fact is that every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.

译文：善于创始的人不一定完成得很好，有个好开头的人不一定有好结果。

重要的不是拥有，而是得到。

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.

宁静的灵魂比烦乱的灵魂更为智慧。