The consequences of this problem make themselves felt in bookshops. When you go to a large bookshop and look at the self-help sections, as I sometimes do -- if you analyze self-help book sproduced in the world today, there are basically two kinds. The first kind tells you, "You can do it! You can make it! Anything's possible!" The other kind tells you how to cope with what we politely call "low self-esteem," or impolitely call, "feeling very bad about yourself."

不以法推行法度，则国事没有常规，办事的时候就没有规矩可循；法度不用法的手段推行，则政令不能贯彻。

水和空气，所有生命赖以生存的两种基本流体，已经变成了全球的垃圾箱。

The only way to get better at writing is to write.

学习的唯一途径就是生活。

The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name.

最好的建筑既是永恒的，又是及时的。