面临大事与难事，可看出一个人的责任；处顺境逆境，可看出一个人的胸襟气度；遇喜事怒事，看一个人的涵养；与同辈相处，可看一个人的见识。
释义：兰花生长在无人的山谷，不会因为没人佩戴而不散发芳香；船在江河湖海上，不会因为没有人乘坐而不浮在水上；君子行使自己的道义，不因没有人理解而停止。
大多数人不是为了理解而听，而是为了回答而听。
个体总是不得不努力，以免被部落淹没。
The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.