The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

The deepest theorems often have the simplest proofs - if you look at them from the right angle.

我们唯一需要害怕的就是害怕本身。

The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope.

A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn’t even know existed can render your own computer unusable.