"The pursuit of meaning is more important than the pursuit of happiness."

Science is a collaborative effort spanning generations.

解释：做好事不为名声，而名声却跟来了；有名声不是希望获得利益，而利益也跟着来；有利益并不希望同别人争夺，而争夺也跟来了。

"To be a writer, one must have a certain arrogance, a belief that what one has to say is important enough for others to hear."

We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.