To quiet a crowd or a drunk, just whisper.
A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn’t even know existed can render your own computer unusable.
自守形式的研究是数学思想统一性的反映。
International politics is a ruthless and dangerous business, and it is foolish to expect states to behave according to moral principles.
It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac.