The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.

The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.

水从山上流到滩头不是有意的，白云从洞中穿过也是无心的。

最好的云战略不是拥有云战略，而是拥有一个能利用云的商业战略。

过去是一个跟随我们的影子，但它不必定义我们。

诗歌是一块画布，心灵可以在上面作画。

"A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."