小说家必须是心理学家,但是一种特殊的心理学家——他理解男女的灵魂,仿佛是他创造了他们。
A novelist must be a psychologist, but a psychologist of a special kind—one who understands the souls of men and women as if he had made them.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
It's probably as unlikely that you would nowadays become as rich and famous as Bill Gates, as it was unlikely in the17th century that you would accede to the ranks of the French aristocracy. But the point is, it doesn't feel that way. It's made to feel, by magazines and other media outlets, that if you've got energy, a few bright ideas about technology, a garage -- you, too, could start a major thing.