Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.
可以教每个人雕刻：必须学会不要米开朗基罗。优秀的程序员也是如此。
To write is to descend into the abyss of oneself.
"We are all detectives in our own lives, trying to piece together the fragments of our past to understand who we are."
I think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand 'I have a problem, it is the Government's job to cope with it!' or 'I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it!' 'I am homeless, the Government must house me!' and so they are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first.
自然界中每年的痛苦总量超出了所有体面的思考范围。