当一个孩子问出一连串的「为什么」的时候,最聪明的回复就是「我不知道,你是怎么想的呢?」
When a child asks an endless string of “why?” questions, the smartest reply is, “I don’t know, what do you think?”
最好的书是那些让你以不同的方式看待世界的书。
The uncontrollability of gunpowder teaches me to accept imperfection. 火药的不可控性教会我接受不完美。
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.
"The most radical thing you can do is to stay home and love your family."