The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.

世界称之为不道德的书籍，其实是展示世界自身羞耻的书籍。

Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as they change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.

We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.