About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.

  • -- Edsger Wybe Dijkstra 艾兹格·迪科斯彻

关于语言的使用:用钝斧头削铅笔是不可能的。试着用十根钝斧头代替它也是徒劳的。

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I probably use my chef's knives more than any other tool in the kitchen. I'm not married to a particular brand, because they all work, they all have sharp blades.

我在厨房里用厨师刀的次数可能比用其他任何工具都多。我没有和某个品牌结婚,因为它们都能工作,都有锋利的刀片。

A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.

对我来说,让我拿着我的缝纫机走,然后带着一些真正的新东西回来,这是一个很好的方法。

Music is a language - and language, at its finest, should be music.

音乐是一种语言,而语言的精华应该是音乐。

Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.

语言孕育于罪恶之中,科学是它的救赎。