The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the breath of universal history.

历史不仅仅是关于过去；它是关于过去如何塑造现在。

《与邵元冲的谈话》（1919年5月20日）

The power of a programming language is not in its syntax, but in the abstractions it provides.

关键在于要有一颗爱真理的心灵，随时随地碰见真理，就把它吸收进来。