编程语言中最重要的东西是名字。没有好名字的语言不会成功。我最近发明了一个非常好的名字，现在正在寻找一种合适的语言。

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

对疾病和死亡的所有兴趣，只是对生命兴趣的另一种表达。

Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.

A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it. But it is true to say that you are open to all the winds, some of them icy indeed. You are out on your own, out on a limb. You find no shelter, no protection — unless you lie — in which case of course you have constructed your own protection and, it could be argued, become a politician.