写自己和所处时代的人，才是唯一能写所有人和所有时代的人。
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
The only way to understand history is to live it.
"I am not a language, I am a word."
我常说同样的话：要想赢就必须受苦。
A building should be like a tree—it grows and changes with the seasons.
关键不是消除恐惧，而是控制它。
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection.