The past is always there, but it's not the only thing that's there.

The dead are not silent. They are merely waiting to be heard.

不要说不会消魂，西风卷起帘子，人比黄花还要消瘦。

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.

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.

There's a politics to how materials are used.

我们都是时间的移民。

I don't believe in heroes, but I believe in people who do heroic things.

"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like."