A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
艺术是与那些你永远不会遇见的人建立联系的方式。
虽然熟读了《诗经》三百篇，但让他去处理政事，却办不好；派他出使国外，却不能独立地根据具体情况应对自如；这样的人，读的即使再多，又有什么用处呢？
The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user.
It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.