如果财富能够争取得到，即使让我手执马鞭去做一个车夫，我也去做，但如果追求不到，还不如去干我喜欢的事。
最好的程序是这样编写的：计算机可以快速执行它们，而人类可以清楚地理解它们。理想情况下，程序员是一位散文家，他使用传统的美学和文学形式以及数学概念来传达算法的工作原理，并说服读者结果是正确的。
The act of writing is an act of optimism. You wouldn't take the trouble to do it if you felt it didn't matter.
故事的真实性取决于它唤起的情感。
真正的科学进步不是通过简单的事实积累实现的，而是通过理论和模型的不断精炼。
In a way, I've got some bad news, particularly to anybody who's come to Oxford from abroad. There's a real problem with snobbery, because sometimes people from outside the U.K. imagine that snobbery is a distinctively U.K. phenomenon, fixated on country houses and titles. The bad news is that's not true. Snobbery is a global phenomenon; we area global organization, this is a global phenomenon. What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you, and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.
