书是一面镜子：如果一只猿猴往里看，使徒不太可能往外看。

So what I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas, and make sure that we own them; that we are truly the authors of our own ambitions. Because it's bad enough not getting what you want, but it's even worse to have an idea of what it is you want, and find out, at the end of the journey, that it isn't, in fact, what you wanted all along.

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

We will never run out of things to program as long as there is a single program around.

The tragedy of great power politics is that even well-intentioned states are forced to act in ways that can lead to conflict and war.