These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.

Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot.

If you're not failing, you're not pushing hard enough.

The novel is the great modern epic because it can contain everything: poetry, history, philosophy, politics.

我不需要运气，我自己创造运气。