信息技术最大的好处是它赋予人们做他们想做的事情的能力。它让人们有创造力。它让人们有生产力。它让人们学习他们以前认为无法学习的东西，所以在某种意义上，它是关于潜力的。
"The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential."
Profitability and responsibility must go hand in hand.
I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.
The beauty of literature is that it allows us to live a thousand lives.
A building should be a good neighbor.
Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot.