"Karma is the mechanical expiation of sin and at that time I thought I understood its meaning. The universe wanted you to renounce vanity, ambition, and pride, and embrace God. To do it voluntarily would be best. But if you didn't, then Karma, the everyday workings of the universe, would slowly and m"
"But no mathematical model can capture the intricacies of human psychology. Watching traders occasionally put too much faith in the power of formalism and mathematics , I saw that if you listen to the models' siren song for too long, you may end up on the rocks or in the whirlpool."
"Models are better regarded as a collection of parallel thoughts universes you can explore. Each universe should be consistent, but the actual financial and human world, unlike the world of matter, is going to be infinitely more complex than any model we make of it. We are always trying to shoehorn t"
"UNIX操作系统对编程者们来说是一个令人激动人心的开发环境。它包括了我曾经见过的最漂亮的工具程序中的两个:它们被称为"lex"和"yacc",这两个工具程序让我几乎可以毫不费力地设计出编译程序。"lex"是“词法分析器”(lexical analyzer)的缩写,而"yacc"这代表了“目前为止又多了一个编译程序的编译程序”(Yet Another Compiler-Compiler)。像对很多UNIX工具程序一样,人们采用了短小可爱的首字母缩写形式来命名“yacc”。你可以用lex来设计一个子程序以识别合法的句子,然后执行你认为合适的命令。Lex和yacc都是“非过程性的”程序,也就是说你不"
"In the end, character and chance counted at least as much as talent. Luck, combined with capacity to perserve, played an overwhelming role."
"I had a passion for the content of physics, but I was also possessed by a hungry ambition for its earthly rewards. Both passion and hunger persisted over the years, despite the inevitable disappointments. Ten years later, as a postdoctoral researcher at Oxford in 1976, I experienced a minor epiphany"