Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends.

No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

In the world of databases, performance is king. But performance without reliability is meaningless.

制造链式反应堆的基本点是正确安排材料。

过去是我们讲给自己的故事。

每一个挑战都是伪装的机遇。

The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.

In science, we must be open to the possibility that our most cherished theories could be wrong.