"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

钱钟书

最好的程序是这样写的：计算机可以快速执行它们，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 best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.

罗纳德·李维斯特

像陈独秀那样在他的周报上批评国民党的事再也不许发生。如果他的批评里有支持一个比国民党更好的第三党的语气，我一定开除他、如果我能够自由地把共产党人开除出国民党，我就可以不接受财政援助。

——对马林说

孙中山

I touched the pain in my chest. It was the place where she had one or two times in my hair.

我抚摸着我胸骨上的一块刺痛，那就是她披着秀发的头曾有一两次靠在我的心房的地方。

弗拉基米尔·纳博科夫

幸福就是身体的无痛苦和灵魂的无困扰。

伊壁鸠鲁

我们对于情感的理解越多，则我们越能控制情感，而心灵感受情感的痛苦也越少。

斯宾诺莎

心理学造就了90%的行情。