I was beginning to learn what all good pros and students of tennis must learn: that images are better than words, showing better than telling, too much instruction worse than none, and that trying often produces negative results.

-- The Inner Game of Tennis

我开始学习所有优秀的网球专业人士和学生都必须学习的东西：图像比文字更好，展示比讲述更佳，过多的指导不如没有，而且往往会产生负面结果。

I was going to skip entirely my usual explanations to beginning players about the proper grip, stroke and footwork for the basic forehand. Instead, I was going to hit ten forehands myself, and I wanted him to watch carefully, not thinking about what I was doing, but simply trying to grasp a visual image of the forehand. He was to repeat the image in his mind several times and then just let his body imitate.

-- The Inner Game of Tennis

我打算完全跳过对新手关于正手握拍、击球和脚步的常规解释。相反，我打算亲自打十个正手球，并希望他仔细观察，不要思考我在做什么，而是简单地尝试捕捉正手的视觉形象。他应该在脑海中重复这个形象几次，然后让身体模仿。

The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see every day.

-- Erwin Schrödinger

真正的蠢材是缺乏自知之明的人（诸神专嘲笑或加害这种人）。我有很长一段时间曾是这种人。你当这种人迄今已很长时间，别再当了。

王尔德 -- 《自深深处》

你不明白，一个灵魂的空间无法同时容纳大恨和大爱。它们无法在一间雕琢精美的屋子里并存。爱由想象力滋养，可以让我们变得更有智慧、更善良和更高尚。透过爱，我们得以把生命看成一个整体；透过爱，也只有透过爱，我们得以除欣赏别人的理想状态外还欣赏他们的现实状态。只有美好的事物和构思美好的事物可以滋养爱。相反，任何事物都可以滋养恨。

王尔德 -- 《自深深处》

Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

-- Mark Twain

An old alchemist gave the following consolation to one of his disciples: “No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you.

-- Carl Jung

If you have to do it, it’s work. If you want to do it, it’s play.

-- Naval 

我去渡良濑川岸边的次数已经不下一百回，到处观察、拍照，工作日去、周末也去，白天去，夜里也去。至此，我为自己在东京都找找旧报道、点点鼠标就对案件妄下判断的行为感到羞愧。现场调查面临距离远、交通不便的问题，但不能什么都不做，就摆出一副什么都懂的样子。

-- 清水洁 - 足利女童连续失踪事件

Students who use AI as a crutch don’t learn anything. It prevents them from thinking. Instead, using AI as co-intelligence is important because it increases your capabilities and also keeps you in the loop. […]

AI does so many things that we need to set guardrails on what we don’t want to give up. It’s a very weird, general-purpose technology, which means it will affect all kinds of things, and we’ll have to adjust socially.

-- Ethan Mollick

依赖人工智能作为拐杖的学生往往无法真正学到东西，因为这会抑制他们的思考能力。相反，重要的是将人工智能视为共智工具，因为这不仅能提升你的能力，还能让你保持在学习的环节中。[…]

人工智能的功能多样，因此我们需要设定一些边界，以确保不放弃我们不愿失去的核心价值。作为一种非常独特的通用技术，人工智能将对各个领域产生影响，因此我们需要在社会层面进行相应的调整。

At first, I struggled to understand why anyone would want to write this way. My dialogue with ChatGPT was frustratingly meandering, as though I were excavating an essay instead of crafting one. But, when I thought about the psychological experience of writing, I began to see the value of the tool. ChatGPT was not generating professional prose all at once, but it was providing starting points: interesting research ideas to explore; mediocre paragraphs that might, with sufficient editing, become usable. For all its inefficiencies, this indirect approach did feel easier than staring at a blank page; “talking” to the chatbot about the article was more fun than toiling in quiet isolation. In the long run, I wasn’t saving time: I still needed to look up facts and write sentences in my own voice. But my exchanges seemed to reduce the maximum mental effort demanded of me.

-- Cal Newport

起初，我很难理解为何有人会选择这种方式写作。与ChatGPT的对话总是漫无边际，仿佛是在挖掘一篇文章，而非创作。但当我思考写作的心理体验时，开始意识到这个工具的价值。ChatGPT并非一次性生成专业文章，而是提供了起点：有趣的研究思路可以探索；经过充分编辑的平庸段落可能会变得实用。尽管效率不高，这种间接的方法确实比盯着空白页要轻松；与聊天机器人“交流”关于文章比在寂静中埋头苦干更有趣。从长远来看，我并没有节省时间：我仍需查找事实并用自己的声音写作。但这些交流似乎降低了对我心理努力的最大需求。

一部分儿童具有思考的习惯，而教育的目的在于铲除他们的这种习惯。

-- 罗素

钱是工具，不是目的。

-- 黄峥

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh or they will kill you

-- Oscar Wilde

I imagine my time as worth $1000 an hour, and ask myself what’s worth $1000?

-- Derek Sivers

The open secret of real success is to throw your whole personality into your problem.

-- George Polya - How to Solve it

“How did you go bankrupt?”, Bill asked.
“Two ways”, Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”

-- Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises

“What do you see when you look in the Mirror [of Erised]?”
                
“I? I see myself holding a pair of thick, woollen socks.”
                
Harry stared.
                
“One can never have enough socks”, said Dumbledore. “Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn’t get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.”

-- J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

-- Steve Jobs

There’s lots of ways to be, as a person. And some people express their deep appreciation in different ways. But one of the ways that I believe people express their appreciation to the rest of humanity is to make something wonderful and put it out there.

And you never meet the people. You never shake their hands. You never hear their story or tell yours. But somehow, in the act of making something with a great deal of care and love, something’s transmitted there. And it’s a way of expressing to the rest of our species our deep appreciation. So we need to be true to who we are and remember what’s really important to us.

-- Steve Jobs

I started eating with them [the chemists] for a while. And I started asking, ‘What are the important problems of your field?’ And after a week or so, ‘What important problems are you working on?’ And after some more time I came in one day and said, ‘If what you are doing is not important, and if you don’t think it is going to lead to something important, why are you at Bell Labs working on it?’ I wasn’t welcomed after that; I had to find somebody else to eat with!…In the fall, Dave McCall stopped me in the hall and said, ‘Hamming, that remark of yours got underneath my skin. I thought about it all summer, i.e. what were the important problems in my field. I haven’t changed my research’, he says, ‘but I think it was well worthwhile.’ And I said, ‘Thank you, Dave’, and went on. I noticed a couple of months later he was made the head of the department. I noticed the other day he was a Member of the National Academy of Engineering. I noticed he has succeeded. I have never heard the names of any of the other fellows at that table mentioned in science and scientific circles.

-- Richard Hamming - “You and Your Research”

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    

-- 荀子                                    

Not having heard is not as good as having heard,
having heard is not as good as having seen,
having seen is not as good as mentally knowing,
mentally knowing is not as good as putting into action;
true learning is complete only when action has been put forth

-- Xunzi

天气好极了，钱几乎没有

-- 契科夫

When there's a will to fail, obstacles can be found.

-- John McCarthy

I work from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed. I work seven days a week. When I'm not working, I'm thinking about working, and when I'm working, I'm working. I sit through movies, but I don't remember them because I'm thinking about work.

-- Jensen Huang

我记得我久久地看过一个身着病服的老人，在草地上踱着方步晒太阳；只要这样我想只要这样！只要能这样就行了就够了！我回忆脚踩在软软的草地上是什么感觉？想走到哪儿就走到哪儿是什么感觉？踢一颗路边的石子，踢着它走是什么感觉？没这样回忆过的人不会相信，那竟是回忆不出来的！老人走后我仍呆望着那块草地，阳光在那儿慢慢地淡薄，脱离，凝作一缕孤哀凄寂的红光一步步爬上墙，爬上楼顶……我写下一句歪诗：轻拨小窗看春色，漏入人间一斜阳。日后我摇着轮椅特意去看过那块草地，并从那儿张望7号窗口，猜想那玻璃后面现在住的谁？上帝打算为他挑选什么前程？当然，上帝用不着征求他的意见。

-- 史铁生 - 我与地坛

我面向墙躺着，王主任坐在我身后许久不说什么，然后说了，话并不多，大意是：还是看看书吧，你不是爱看书吗？人活一天就不要白活。将来你工作了，忙得一点儿时间都没有，你会后悔这段时光就让它这么白白地过去了。这些话当然并不能打消我的死念，但这些话我将受用终生，在以后的若干年里我频繁地对死神抱有过热情，但在未死之前我一直记得王主任这些话，因而还是去做些事。

-- 史铁生 - 我与地坛

这样想了好几年，最后事情终于弄明白了：一个人，出生了，这就不再是一个可以辩论的问题，而只是上帝交给他的一个事实；上帝在交给我们这件事实的时候，已经顺便保证了它的结果，所以死是一件不必急于求成的事，死是一个必然会降临的节日。这样想过之后我安心多了，眼前的一切不再那么可怕。

-- 史铁生 - 我与地坛

那时她的儿子还太年轻，还来不及为母亲想，他被命运击昏了头，一心以为自己是世上最不幸的一个，不知道儿子的不幸在母亲那儿总是要加倍的。

-- 史铁生 - 我与地坛

有一年，十月的风又翻动起安详的落叶，我在园中读书，听见两个散步的老人说：“没想到这园子有这么大。”我放下书，想，这么大一座园子，要在其中找到她的儿子，母亲走过了多少焦灼的路。多年来我头一次意识到，这园中不单是处处都有过我的车辙，有过我的车辙的地方也都有过母亲的脚印。

-- 史铁生 - 我与地坛