It's difficult to extract sense from strings, but they're the only communication coin we can count on.
从字符串中提取意义很困难，但是它们是我们唯一可以依靠的交流硬币。
世界的历史就是那些相信自己的人的历史。
A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided.
有一句话我等了三十年，现在终于可以说了：“老爸，我总是跟你说，我会回来拿到我的学位的！”我要感谢哈佛大学在这个时候给我这个荣誉。明年，我就要换工作了(注：指从微软公司退休)……我终于可以在简历上写我有一个本科学位，这真是不错啊。
We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we’ve lived through, or feel we’ve had enough time.
The great tragedy of Science—the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
学校不仅仅是教授数学和阅读的地方。它们是身份形成的场所，也是知识政治展开的地方。