The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.

——2002年6月温铁军在清华大学的一次讲座

无限的耐心会带来立竿见影的效果。

The best way to get a project done faster is to start sooner.

您可以通过注意程序员对FORTRAN持续活力的态度来衡量程序员的观点。

被视为行为系统的人类其实相当简单。我们行为表面上的复杂性很大程度上反映了我们所处环境的复杂性。

农业的未来在于智能化和生态友好型发展。

不必担忧财富不多，只须担忧财富不平均，不必担忧人口稀少，只须担忧境内不安宁。……既来了，要使他们安家乐业。