If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.

The artist is a child of his time, but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.

上帝在家里，我们出去散步了。