大海不拒绝各种各样的水，所以才能成就它的博大；大山不拒绝形形色色的土石，所以才能成就它的高峻；贤明的君主不嫌弃百姓，所以能够聚集众多的臣民；读书人不厌倦学习，所以能达到圣贤的境界。

正是通过观察和思考的力量，人们才能找到方法。所以我们必须不断挖掘和钻研。

In distributed systems, the key challenge is achieving consensus among unreliable components.

The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values. And which values? Even when they do not panic, men often sense that older ways of feeling and thinking have collapsed and that newer beginnings are ambiguous to the point of moral stasis.

梦想不会逃跑，会逃跑的永远都是自己。

The mystery of creativity is like the mystery of freedom.

I paint the light that is reflected, not the light that is received.

未来属于那些能够适应和进化的人。

The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of man change also; and as government is for the living, and not for the dead, it is the living only that has any right in it.