“Raise your quality standards as high as you can live with, avoid wasting your time on routine problems, and always try to work as closely as possible at the boundary of your abilities. Do this, because it is the only way of discovering how that boundary should be moved forward.”
― Edsger W. Dijkstra

“It is not only the violin that shapes the violinist, we are all shaped by the tools we train ourselves to use, and in this respect programming languages have a devious influence: they shape our thinking habits.”
― Edsger W. Dijkstra

“Your obligation is that of active participation. You should not act as knowledge-absorbing sponges, but as whetstones on which we can all sharpen our wits”
― Edsger W. Dijkstra

“In a society in which the educational system is used as an instrument for the establishment of a homogenized culture, in which the cream is prevented from rising to the top, the education of competent programmers could be politically impalatable.”
― Edsger W. Dijkstra, EWD 340: The Humble Programmer

《地址的故事：地址簿里隐藏的身份、种族、财富与权力密码》

看了三章，对我来说没有太大的意思

这地方也有bot力

一个为了追求眼前欢愉与爱意可以不顾一切的拥有自我毁灭倾向的女人。对于此时的小六来说，抓得住的爱与幸福才是真切的、值得的。

人类的智慧如同孔雀的羽毛，极尽炫耀，只是为了吸引异性，所有的艺术和文学作品，比如莫扎特、莎士比亚和米开朗基罗，都是精心策划的求偶仪式

《平等简史》

现代人产生幸福感的心理机制过分依赖于大脑、依赖于对感官的剥削，而这会形成一个恶性循环：“它必须要么生产出越来越多的欢乐，要么就垮台。”

恶性循环是现代人拿来对抗生命中难以消解的不安全感和焦虑感的办法。

它的解决方法是制造出更多的欲望，而这将会导致不可逆的感官的钝化以及大脑的疲累。

如果生活是一道没有形状和目标的急流，而且在它的洪流中，除了“变化”本身，绝对没有事物能够持久，那么它就会看上去“没有未来”，并因此而没有希望。

我们渴求着使注意力分散的消遣——由景观、声音、兴奋感和刺激构成的“万花筒”，在这一“万花筒”里，必须在尽可能短的时间内塞进尽可能多的内容。