What I hear, I forget; What I see, I remember; What I do, I understand.

不闻不若闻之，闻之不若见之，见之不若知之，知之不若行之；学至于行之而止矣。

孔子

The true voyage of discovery consists not of going to new places, but of having a new pair of eyes.

真正的发现之旅不在于去新的地方，而在于拥有一双新的眼镜。

Marcel Proust

Such simple things, and we make of them something so complex it defeats us, almost.

一些简单的事情，我们往往把它们搞得很复杂以至于几乎使我们失败。

John Ashbery

Counting is the religion of the generation, its hope and salvation.

计算是这一代的信仰、希望和救赎。

Gertrude Stein

It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backward.

记忆如此悲恋，只能回溯过去。

Lewis Carroll

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

让每件事情尽可能简单，而又不简单过度。

Albert Einstein

Form ever follows function.

形式永远跟随功能。

Louis Sullivan

Form is function.

形式就是功能。

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

名称有什么关系？玫瑰不叫玫瑰，依然芳香如故。

W. William Shakespeare

Programmers are created of universes for which they alone are responsible. Universes of virually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.

程序员对其所创造的宇宙全权负责，因为他们是这些宇宙的创造者。以计算机程序的形式，可创造出几乎无限复杂的宇宙。

Joseph Weizenbaum

If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.

若一切看上去都还在掌控之中，那说明你还跑得不够快。

Mario Andretti

High thoughts need a high language.

至高的思想需要至高的语言。

Aristophanes

Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.

既未组织思想又未表达思想，语言便黯淡无光；没有语言之光芒照耀，思想便无法闪光。

Cicero

The syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretation.

语法规范的语法成分必须为每个句子指定具有确定语义解释的深层结构。

Noam Chomsky

Civilization progresses by extending the number of operations that we can perform without thinking about them.

对于不用经过特意思考就能执行的操作，其数量的增长推动文明进步。

Alfred North Whitehead

We shall not cease from exploration, and at the end we will arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time.

永不停止探索的脚步，直到最后，再次抵达起点，我们才刚刚开始了解脚下的路。

T. S. Eliot

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

智能即制造人造物---特别是制造“制造工具的工具”---的能力。

Henry Bergson

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

错误是发现探索的温床。

James Joyce