In the quest for understanding, the journey is just as important as the destination.

每个故事都是一颗种子。种下它，看着它成长。

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.

孔子说：“我曾整天不吃、整夜不睡，来思考。结果没好处，还不如学习。”

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.