Optimizing compilers are a lot like nuclear power plants. They are both very powerful and very dangerous.
If we don’t act now, the next generation will inherit a world with fewer resources and greater challenges.
The work of every workman is fully planned out by the management at least one day in advance, and each man receives in most cases complete written instructions, describing in detail the task which he is to accomplish.
没人会和你自己一样对你所拥有的东西印象深刻。（Morgan Housel《金钱心理学》里面的一句话，可以理解为禀赋效应：即，由于情感上的偏见，人们在自己已经拥有的东西上比尚未获得的东西拥有更大的价值）
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.