美女就像美丽的珍珠，我们可以把它拖在手心，却不应该握紧拳头遮掩它的光芒，而是摊开掌心，任由它魅力四射，所要担心的只是别让它从掌心滑落。
----周末陪一美女逛街，突然想到的，呵呵。也许我认识的美女少，所以见着一美女特别高兴。跟她走在一块，我似乎有一种莫名的欢喜，也许是虚荣心，尤其是当其他的男的以异样的眼光注视着她的时候，呵呵，我似乎也想到了我平时偷看美女的情景。不过我发现当你真的跟一个美女坦诚的以朋友对待时，居然一点杂念都没有，真的是在享受一种美。特别是当她在镜子前试穿那件白色的连衣裙时，我真的诧异她给我的那种美感，不是来自异性的吸引，而是感觉一个很美的东西搬在我的面前。也许我知道我追不上她，反而是在全心地欣赏她的美，呵呵。当时旁边好多女孩子也都在称赞她的美，当然也有不少男士不时地偷看上几眼，呵呵，我当然更加开心地坐在那欣赏这一美好的画面。我当时在想，美女还真是天使，她不是为一个人而生的，如果我们能够有幸拥有的时候，绝不能禁锢她。是天使就应该自由的飞翔，向人们展示美丽与永恒。
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Friday, June 27, 2008
The Paper Version of the Web
People have been sketching user interfaces since the birth of the web (possibly even before) but the sketches usually stay locked away in old notebooks and discarded bar napkins in Austin, Texas. Many of the websites we use started out as scrawlings, and with people like Jakob Nielsen and Bill Buxton spreading the gospel of faster, cheaper paper prototypes, “next year’s Twitter” may already exist on paper.
http://deeplinking.net/paper-web/
http://deeplinking.net/paper-web/
Monday, June 23, 2008
Steve Jobs “Find What You Love.”
Commencement address at Stanford University
Palo Alto, California USA
June 12, 2005
Click to view video
Steve Jobs is the CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios.
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I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.
The first story is about connecting the dots.
I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
"Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become."It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
My second story is about love and loss.
I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.
I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.
I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.
My third story is about death.
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.
This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.
Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Thank you all very much.
Palo Alto, California USA
June 12, 2005
Click to view video
Steve Jobs is the CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios.
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I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.
The first story is about connecting the dots.
I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
"Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become."It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
My second story is about love and loss.
I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.
I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.
I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.
My third story is about death.
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.
This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.
Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Thank you all very much.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Chinese Nicknames for NBA Players
SECAUCUS, NJ, March 29, 2007 -- German Racecar is hot, and he's working
hard to get his team to the playoffs. Meanwhile Little Emperor lords over the
East and his team just clinched a postseason spot.
Hold on, hold on, what are you talking about? Who is German Racecar? Little Emperor? Well, let us explain: those are NBA players' nicknames in China.
"German Racecar" is Dirk Nowitzki, his ability to roll on court like a racecar, and he is, of course, from Germany. Meanwhile, China's Little Emperor is our "King James." For instance, do you want to know why Tim Duncan is called Stone Buddha? Scroll down. And while you're there check out the 10 Chinese nicknames we picked for you to vote on in our poll.
NBA.com has posted a sampling of some of the best nicknames fans in China have given their favorite NBA players and the reasons behind it.
hard to get his team to the playoffs. Meanwhile Little Emperor lords over the
East and his team just clinched a postseason spot.
Hold on, hold on, what are you talking about? Who is German Racecar? Little Emperor? Well, let us explain: those are NBA players' nicknames in China.
"German Racecar" is Dirk Nowitzki, his ability to roll on court like a racecar, and he is, of course, from Germany. Meanwhile, China's Little Emperor is our "King James." For instance, do you want to know why Tim Duncan is called Stone Buddha? Scroll down. And while you're there check out the 10 Chinese nicknames we picked for you to vote on in our poll.
NBA.com has posted a sampling of some of the best nicknames fans in China have given their favorite NBA players and the reasons behind it.
| Team | Player | Chinese Nickname | Translation of Chinese Nickname | Explanation |
| Chicago | Ben Wallace | 大本钟 (Da Ben Zhong) | Big Ben | Wallace’s size and ability to defend |
| Cleveland | Zydrunas Ilgauskas | 大 Z (Da Z) | Big Z | Da means “big” and Z is the first letter of his first name |
| Cleveland | LeBron James | 小皇帝 (Xiao Huang Di) | Little Emperor | Direct translation of English nickname "King James" |
| Charlotte | Emeka Okafor | 猫王 (Mao Wang) | King of the Cats | Meaning leader of the Bobcats |
| Dallas | Dirk Nowitzki | 德国战车 (De Guo Zhan Che) | German Racecar | Dirk’s ability to roll on court like a racecar. And he is a player from Germany. |
| Denver | Carmelo Anthony | 甜瓜 (Tian Gua) | Sweet Melon | The nickname “Melo” resembles “Melon”. “Sweet Melon” refers to Carmelo ‘s sweet and cute appearance |
| Denver | Allen Iverson | 答案 ( Da An ) | The Answer | Direct translation of his English nickname |
| Detroit | Chauncy Billups | 光滑 (Guang Hua) | Smooth | Direct translation of English nickname “Smooth” |
| Detroit | Richard Hamilton | 面具人 (Mian Ju Ren) | Man in the Mask | Hamilton's habit of wearing a mask on court |
| Detroit | Tayshaun Prince | 小王子 ( Xiao Wang Zi ) | Little Prince | Direct translation of his last name “ Prince ” |
| Houston | Dikembe Mutombo | 非洲大山 (Fei Zhou Da Shan) | Africa’s Big Mountain | Mutombo’s ability to block shots. And he is a player from Africa |
| L.A. Clippers | Elton Brand | 船长 (Chuan Zhang) | The Captain | He’s seen as the leader of the Clippers |
| L.A. Clippers | Cuttino Mobley | 老猫 (Lao Mao) | Old Cat | Direct translation from English nickname “ The Cat” |
| L.A. Lakers | Kobe Bryant | 小飞侠 (Xiao Fei Xia) | Little Flying warrior | Bryant’s ability to jump |
| Memphis | Damon Stoudemire | 小飞鼠 (Xiao Fei Shu) | Little Flying Mouse | For his speed and the ability to pass through opposing players |
| Miami | Shaquille O'Neal | 俠客 (Xia Ke) | Warrior | "Xia Ke" means righteous and respectful warriors in ancient China |
| Miami | Gary Payton | 手套 (Shou Tao) | The Glove | Dir |
| Miami | Dwyane Wade | 闪电侠 (Shan Dian Xia) | The Flash | For his lighting fast style of playing |
| Miami | Jason Williams | 白巧克力 (Bai Qiao Ke Li) | White Chocolate | Direct translation of his English nickname |
| Minnesota | Kevin Garnett | 狼王 (Lang Wang) | King of the Wolves | Meaning leader of the Timberwolves |
| New Jersey | Vince Carter | 飞人 (Fei Ren) | Flying Man | Carter's ability to leap and make amazing dunks |
| New Jersey | Jason Kidd | 发动机 (Fa Dong Ji) | The Engine | Kidd is the “engine” behind the Nets’ offense |
| New York | Steve Francis | 特权 (Te Quan) | Special Rights | Direct translation of the word “ Franchise” |
| Orlando | Grant Hill | 好好先生 (Houhou Xian Shen) | Mr. Nice | Direct translation of English nickname |
| Philadelphia | Andre Iguodala | 小AI (Xiao AI) | Little AI | “Little” is placed before the initial to differentiate between Allen Iverson and Andre Iguodala. “Little” also refers to his short years in the league compared to Allen Iverson. |
| Phoenix | Boris Diaw | 法国魔术师 (Fa Guo Mo Shu Shi) | French Magician | Diaw’s ability to play basketball as if playing magic. And he is a player from France. |
| Phoenix | Amare Stoudemire | 小霸王 (Xiao Ba Wang) | Little Lord | Amare is young and dominates in the paint |
| San Antonio | Tim Duncan | 石佛(Shi Fo ) | Stone Buddha | Duncan is very strong and calm just like the Buddha. |
| San Antonio | Emanuel Ginobili | 阿根廷飞人 (A Gan Ting Fei Ren) | Argentina's Flying Man | Ginobili's ability to jump. And he is a player from Argentina |
| San Antonio | Robert Horry | 关键先生 (Guan Jian Xian Shen) | The Key Man | Horry’s ability to make clutch shots |
| Seattle | Ray Allen | 绅士 (Shen Shi) | Gentleman | Allen’s gentlemanly manner on court |
| Toronto | Chris Bosh | 龙王 (Long Wang) | King of the Dragons | He’s seen as the leader of the Raptors |
| Utah | Derek Fisher | 小鱼 (Xiao Yu) | Little fish | Loose translation of his last name “Fisher” |
| Washington | Gilbert Arenas | 大将军 (Da Jiang Jun) | General | Arenas is peerless and commanding in the league. |
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
鸿雁 -- 《东归英雄》主题曲
鸿雁天空上
对对排成行
江水长
秋草黄
草原上琴声忧伤
鸿雁向南方
飞过芦苇荡
天苍茫
雁何往
心中是北方家乡
天苍茫
雁何往
心中是北方家乡
鸿雁向苍天
天空有多遥远
酒喝干再斟满
今夜不醉不还
酒喝干再斟满
今夜不醉不还
Monday, June 16, 2008
Barack Obama: Father's Day Speech
Barack celebrated Father's Day today by speaking at the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago. He began by quoting the Sermon on the Mount, in which Jesus closes by saying, “Whoever hears these words of mine, and does them, shall be likened to a wise man who built his house upon a rock.”
Remarks of Senator Barack Obama
(As prepared for delivery)
Apostolic Church of God
Sunday, June 15th, 2009
Chicago, IL
Good morning. It’s good to be home on this Father’s Day with my girls, and it’s an honor to spend some time with all of you today in the house of our Lord.
At the end of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus closes by saying, “Whoever hears these words of mine, and does them, shall be likened to a wise man who built his house upon a rock: the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell not, for it was founded upon a rock.” [Matthew 7: 24-25]
Here at Apostolic, you are blessed to worship in a house that has been founded on the rock of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. But it is also built on another rock, another foundation – and that rock is Bishop Arthur Brazier. In forty-eight years, he has built this congregation from just a few hundred to more than 20,000 strong – a congregation that, because of his leadership, has braved the fierce winds and heavy rains of violence and poverty; joblessness and hopelessness. Because of his work and his ministry, there are more graduates and fewer gang members in the neighborhoods surrounding this church. There are more homes and fewer homeless. There is more community and less chaos because Bishop Brazier continued the march for justice that he began by Dr. King’s side all those years ago. He is the reason this house has stood tall for half a century. And on this Father’s Day, it must make him proud to know that the man now charged with keeping its foundation strong is his son and your new pastor, Reverend Byron Brazier.
Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important. And we are called to recognize and honor how critical every father is to that foundation. They are teachers and coaches. They are mentors and role models. They are examples of success and the men who constantly push us toward it.
But if we are honest with ourselves, we’ll admit that what too many fathers also are is missing – missing from too many lives and too many homes. They have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men. And the foundations of our families are weaker because of it.
You and I know how true this is in the African-American community. We know that more than half of all black children live in single-parent households, a number that has doubled – doubled – since we were children. We know the statistics – that children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more likely to drop out of schools and twenty times more likely to end up in prison. They are more likely to have behavioral problems, or run away from home, or become teenage parents themselves. And the foundations of our community are weaker because of it.
How many times in the last year has this city lost a child at the hands of another child? How many times have our hearts stopped in the middle of the night with the sound of a gunshot or a siren? How many teenagers have we seen hanging around on street corners when they should be sitting in a classroom? How many are sitting in prison when they should be working, or at least looking for a job? How many in this generation are we willing to lose to poverty or violence or addiction? How many?
Yes, we need more cops on the street. Yes, we need fewer guns in the hands of people who shouldn’t have them. Yes, we need more money for our schools, and more outstanding teachers in the classroom, and more afterschool programs for our children. Yes, we need more jobs and more job training and more opportunity in our communities.
But we also need families to raise our children. We need fathers to realize that responsibility does not end at conception. We need them to realize that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child – it’s the courage to raise one.
We need to help all the mothers out there who are raising these kids by themselves; the mothers who drop them off at school, go to work, pick up them up in the afternoon, work another shift, get dinner, make lunches, pay the bills, fix the house, and all the other things it takes both parents to do. So many of these women are doing a heroic job, but they need support. They need another parent. Their children need another parent. That’s what keeps their foundation strong. It’s what keeps the foundation of our country strong.
I know what it means to have an absent father, although my circumstances weren’t as tough as they are for many young people today. Even though my father left us when I was two years old, and I only knew him from the letters he wrote and the stories that my family told, I was luckier than most. I grew up in Hawaii, and had two wonderful grandparents from Kansas who poured everything they had into helping my mother raise my sister and me – who worked with her to teach us about love and respect and the obligations we have to one another. I screwed up more often than I should’ve, but I got plenty of second chances. And even though we didn’t have a lot of money, scholarships gave me the opportunity to go to some of the best schools in the country. A lot of kids don’t get these chances today. There is no margin for error in their lives. So my own story is different in that way.
Still, I know the toll that being a single parent took on my mother – how she struggled at times to the pay bills; to give us the things that other kids had; to play all the roles that both parents are supposed to play. And I know the toll it took on me. So I resolved many years ago that it was my obligation to break the cycle – that if I could be anything in life, I would be a good father to my girls; that if I could give them anything, I would give them that rock – that foundation – on which to build their lives. And that would be the greatest gift I could offer.
I say this knowing that I have been an imperfect father – knowing that I have made mistakes and will continue to make more; wishing that I could be home for my girls and my wife more than I am right now. I say this knowing all of these things because even as we are imperfect, even as we face difficult circumstances, there are still certain lessons we must strive to live and learn as fathers – whether we are black or white; rich or poor; from the South Side or the wealthiest suburb.
The first is setting an example of excellence for our children – because if we want to set high expectations for them, we’ve got to set high expectations for ourselves. It’s great if you have a job; it’s even better if you have a college degree. It’s a wonderful thing if you are married and living in a home with your children, but don’t just sit in the house and watch “SportsCenter” all weekend long. That’s why so many children are growing up in front of the television. As fathers and parents, we’ve got to spend more time with them, and help them with their homework, and replace the video game or the remote control with a book once in awhile. That’s how we build that foundation.
We know that education is everything to our children’s future. We know that they will no longer just compete for good jobs with children from Indiana, but children from India and China and all over the world. We know the work and the studying and the level of education that requires.
You know, sometimes I’ll go to an eighth-grade graduation and there’s all that pomp and circumstance and gowns and flowers. And I think to myself, it’s just eighth grade. To really compete, they need to graduate high school, and then they need to graduate college, and they probably need a graduate degree too. An eighth-grade education doesn’t cut it today. Let’s give them a handshake and tell them to get their butts back in the library!
It’s up to us – as fathers and parents – to instill this ethic of excellence in our children. It’s up to us to say to our daughters, don’t ever let images on TV tell you what you are worth, because I expect you to dream without limit and reach for those goals. It’s up to us to tell our sons, those songs on the radio may glorify violence, but in my house we live glory to achievement, self respect, and hard work. It’s up to us to set these high expectations. And that means meeting those expectations ourselves. That means setting examples of excellence in our own lives.
The second thing we need to do as fathers is pass along the value of empathy to our children. Not sympathy, but empathy – the ability to stand in somebody else’s shoes; to look at the world through their eyes. Sometimes it’s so easy to get caught up in “us,” that we forget about our obligations to one another. There’s a culture in our society that says remembering these obligations is somehow soft – that we can’t show weakness, and so therefore we can’t show kindness.
But our young boys and girls see that. They see when you are ignoring or mistreating your wife. They see when you are inconsiderate at home; or when you are distant; or when you are thinking only of yourself. And so it’s no surprise when we see that behavior in our schools or on our streets. That’s why we pass on the values of empathy and kindness to our children by living them. We need to show our kids that you’re not strong by putting other people down – you’re strong by lifting them up. That’s our responsibility as fathers.
And by the way – it’s a responsibility that also extends to Washington. Because if fathers are doing their part; if they’re taking our responsibilities seriously to be there for their children, and set high expectations for them, and instill in them a sense of excellence and empathy, then our government should meet them halfway.
We should be making it easier for fathers who make responsible choices and harder for those who avoid them. We should get rid of the financial penalties we impose on married couples right now, and start making sure that every dime of child support goes directly to helping children instead of some bureaucrat. We should reward fathers who pay that child support with job training and job opportunities and a larger Earned Income Tax Credit that can help them pay the bills. We should expand programs where registered nurses visit expectant and new mothers and help them learn how to care for themselves before the baby is born and what to do after – programs that have helped increase father involvement, women’s employment, and children’s readiness for school. We should help these new families care for their children by expanding maternity and paternity leave, and we should guarantee every worker more paid sick leave so they can stay home to take care of their child without losing their income.
We should take all of these steps to build a strong foundation for our children. But we should also know that even if we do; even if we meet our obligations as fathers and parents; even if Washington does its part too, we will still face difficult challenges in our lives. There will still be days of struggle and heartache. The rains will still come and the winds will still blow.
And that is why the final lesson we must learn as fathers is also the greatest gift we can pass on to our children – and that is the gift of hope.
I’m not talking about an idle hope that’s little more than blind optimism or willful ignorance of the problems we face. I’m talking about hope as that spirit inside us that insists, despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better is waiting for us if we’re willing to work for it and fight for it. If we are willing to believe.
I was answering questions at a town hall meeting in Wisconsin the other day and a young man raised his hand, and I figured he’d ask about college tuition or energy or maybe the war in Iraq. But instead he looked at me very seriously and he asked, “What does life mean to you?”
Now, I have to admit that I wasn’t quite prepared for that one. I think I stammered for a little bit, but then I stopped and gave it some thought, and I said this:
When I was a young man, I thought life was all about me – how do I make my way in the world, and how do I become successful and how do I get the things that I want.
But now, my life revolves around my two little girls. And what I think about is what kind of world I’m leaving them. Are they living in a county where there’s a huge gap between a few who are wealthy and a whole bunch of people who are struggling every day? Are they living in a county that is still divided by race? A country where, because they’re girls, they don’t have as much opportunity as boys do? Are they living in a country where we are hated around the world because we don’t cooperate effectively with other nations? Are they living a world that is in grave danger because of what we’ve done to its climate?
And what I’ve realized is that life doesn’t count for much unless you’re willing to do your small part to leave our children – all of our children – a better world. Even if it’s difficult. Even if the work seems great. Even if we don’t get very far in our lifetime.
That is our ultimate responsibility as fathers and parents. We try. We hope. We do what we can to build our house upon the sturdiest rock. And when the winds come, and the rains fall, and they beat upon that house, we keep faith that our Father will be there to guide us, and watch over us, and protect us, and lead His children through the darkest of storms into light of a better day. That is my prayer for all of us on this Father’s Day, and that is my hope for this country in the years ahead. May God Bless you and your children. Thank you.
Remarks of Senator Barack Obama
(As prepared for delivery)
Apostolic Church of God
Sunday, June 15th, 2009
Chicago, IL
Good morning. It’s good to be home on this Father’s Day with my girls, and it’s an honor to spend some time with all of you today in the house of our Lord.
At the end of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus closes by saying, “Whoever hears these words of mine, and does them, shall be likened to a wise man who built his house upon a rock: the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell not, for it was founded upon a rock.” [Matthew 7: 24-25]
Here at Apostolic, you are blessed to worship in a house that has been founded on the rock of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. But it is also built on another rock, another foundation – and that rock is Bishop Arthur Brazier. In forty-eight years, he has built this congregation from just a few hundred to more than 20,000 strong – a congregation that, because of his leadership, has braved the fierce winds and heavy rains of violence and poverty; joblessness and hopelessness. Because of his work and his ministry, there are more graduates and fewer gang members in the neighborhoods surrounding this church. There are more homes and fewer homeless. There is more community and less chaos because Bishop Brazier continued the march for justice that he began by Dr. King’s side all those years ago. He is the reason this house has stood tall for half a century. And on this Father’s Day, it must make him proud to know that the man now charged with keeping its foundation strong is his son and your new pastor, Reverend Byron Brazier.
Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important. And we are called to recognize and honor how critical every father is to that foundation. They are teachers and coaches. They are mentors and role models. They are examples of success and the men who constantly push us toward it.
But if we are honest with ourselves, we’ll admit that what too many fathers also are is missing – missing from too many lives and too many homes. They have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men. And the foundations of our families are weaker because of it.
You and I know how true this is in the African-American community. We know that more than half of all black children live in single-parent households, a number that has doubled – doubled – since we were children. We know the statistics – that children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more likely to drop out of schools and twenty times more likely to end up in prison. They are more likely to have behavioral problems, or run away from home, or become teenage parents themselves. And the foundations of our community are weaker because of it.
How many times in the last year has this city lost a child at the hands of another child? How many times have our hearts stopped in the middle of the night with the sound of a gunshot or a siren? How many teenagers have we seen hanging around on street corners when they should be sitting in a classroom? How many are sitting in prison when they should be working, or at least looking for a job? How many in this generation are we willing to lose to poverty or violence or addiction? How many?
Yes, we need more cops on the street. Yes, we need fewer guns in the hands of people who shouldn’t have them. Yes, we need more money for our schools, and more outstanding teachers in the classroom, and more afterschool programs for our children. Yes, we need more jobs and more job training and more opportunity in our communities.
But we also need families to raise our children. We need fathers to realize that responsibility does not end at conception. We need them to realize that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child – it’s the courage to raise one.
We need to help all the mothers out there who are raising these kids by themselves; the mothers who drop them off at school, go to work, pick up them up in the afternoon, work another shift, get dinner, make lunches, pay the bills, fix the house, and all the other things it takes both parents to do. So many of these women are doing a heroic job, but they need support. They need another parent. Their children need another parent. That’s what keeps their foundation strong. It’s what keeps the foundation of our country strong.
I know what it means to have an absent father, although my circumstances weren’t as tough as they are for many young people today. Even though my father left us when I was two years old, and I only knew him from the letters he wrote and the stories that my family told, I was luckier than most. I grew up in Hawaii, and had two wonderful grandparents from Kansas who poured everything they had into helping my mother raise my sister and me – who worked with her to teach us about love and respect and the obligations we have to one another. I screwed up more often than I should’ve, but I got plenty of second chances. And even though we didn’t have a lot of money, scholarships gave me the opportunity to go to some of the best schools in the country. A lot of kids don’t get these chances today. There is no margin for error in their lives. So my own story is different in that way.
Still, I know the toll that being a single parent took on my mother – how she struggled at times to the pay bills; to give us the things that other kids had; to play all the roles that both parents are supposed to play. And I know the toll it took on me. So I resolved many years ago that it was my obligation to break the cycle – that if I could be anything in life, I would be a good father to my girls; that if I could give them anything, I would give them that rock – that foundation – on which to build their lives. And that would be the greatest gift I could offer.
I say this knowing that I have been an imperfect father – knowing that I have made mistakes and will continue to make more; wishing that I could be home for my girls and my wife more than I am right now. I say this knowing all of these things because even as we are imperfect, even as we face difficult circumstances, there are still certain lessons we must strive to live and learn as fathers – whether we are black or white; rich or poor; from the South Side or the wealthiest suburb.
The first is setting an example of excellence for our children – because if we want to set high expectations for them, we’ve got to set high expectations for ourselves. It’s great if you have a job; it’s even better if you have a college degree. It’s a wonderful thing if you are married and living in a home with your children, but don’t just sit in the house and watch “SportsCenter” all weekend long. That’s why so many children are growing up in front of the television. As fathers and parents, we’ve got to spend more time with them, and help them with their homework, and replace the video game or the remote control with a book once in awhile. That’s how we build that foundation.
We know that education is everything to our children’s future. We know that they will no longer just compete for good jobs with children from Indiana, but children from India and China and all over the world. We know the work and the studying and the level of education that requires.
You know, sometimes I’ll go to an eighth-grade graduation and there’s all that pomp and circumstance and gowns and flowers. And I think to myself, it’s just eighth grade. To really compete, they need to graduate high school, and then they need to graduate college, and they probably need a graduate degree too. An eighth-grade education doesn’t cut it today. Let’s give them a handshake and tell them to get their butts back in the library!
It’s up to us – as fathers and parents – to instill this ethic of excellence in our children. It’s up to us to say to our daughters, don’t ever let images on TV tell you what you are worth, because I expect you to dream without limit and reach for those goals. It’s up to us to tell our sons, those songs on the radio may glorify violence, but in my house we live glory to achievement, self respect, and hard work. It’s up to us to set these high expectations. And that means meeting those expectations ourselves. That means setting examples of excellence in our own lives.
The second thing we need to do as fathers is pass along the value of empathy to our children. Not sympathy, but empathy – the ability to stand in somebody else’s shoes; to look at the world through their eyes. Sometimes it’s so easy to get caught up in “us,” that we forget about our obligations to one another. There’s a culture in our society that says remembering these obligations is somehow soft – that we can’t show weakness, and so therefore we can’t show kindness.
But our young boys and girls see that. They see when you are ignoring or mistreating your wife. They see when you are inconsiderate at home; or when you are distant; or when you are thinking only of yourself. And so it’s no surprise when we see that behavior in our schools or on our streets. That’s why we pass on the values of empathy and kindness to our children by living them. We need to show our kids that you’re not strong by putting other people down – you’re strong by lifting them up. That’s our responsibility as fathers.
And by the way – it’s a responsibility that also extends to Washington. Because if fathers are doing their part; if they’re taking our responsibilities seriously to be there for their children, and set high expectations for them, and instill in them a sense of excellence and empathy, then our government should meet them halfway.
We should be making it easier for fathers who make responsible choices and harder for those who avoid them. We should get rid of the financial penalties we impose on married couples right now, and start making sure that every dime of child support goes directly to helping children instead of some bureaucrat. We should reward fathers who pay that child support with job training and job opportunities and a larger Earned Income Tax Credit that can help them pay the bills. We should expand programs where registered nurses visit expectant and new mothers and help them learn how to care for themselves before the baby is born and what to do after – programs that have helped increase father involvement, women’s employment, and children’s readiness for school. We should help these new families care for their children by expanding maternity and paternity leave, and we should guarantee every worker more paid sick leave so they can stay home to take care of their child without losing their income.
We should take all of these steps to build a strong foundation for our children. But we should also know that even if we do; even if we meet our obligations as fathers and parents; even if Washington does its part too, we will still face difficult challenges in our lives. There will still be days of struggle and heartache. The rains will still come and the winds will still blow.
And that is why the final lesson we must learn as fathers is also the greatest gift we can pass on to our children – and that is the gift of hope.
I’m not talking about an idle hope that’s little more than blind optimism or willful ignorance of the problems we face. I’m talking about hope as that spirit inside us that insists, despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better is waiting for us if we’re willing to work for it and fight for it. If we are willing to believe.
I was answering questions at a town hall meeting in Wisconsin the other day and a young man raised his hand, and I figured he’d ask about college tuition or energy or maybe the war in Iraq. But instead he looked at me very seriously and he asked, “What does life mean to you?”
Now, I have to admit that I wasn’t quite prepared for that one. I think I stammered for a little bit, but then I stopped and gave it some thought, and I said this:
When I was a young man, I thought life was all about me – how do I make my way in the world, and how do I become successful and how do I get the things that I want.
But now, my life revolves around my two little girls. And what I think about is what kind of world I’m leaving them. Are they living in a county where there’s a huge gap between a few who are wealthy and a whole bunch of people who are struggling every day? Are they living in a county that is still divided by race? A country where, because they’re girls, they don’t have as much opportunity as boys do? Are they living in a country where we are hated around the world because we don’t cooperate effectively with other nations? Are they living a world that is in grave danger because of what we’ve done to its climate?
And what I’ve realized is that life doesn’t count for much unless you’re willing to do your small part to leave our children – all of our children – a better world. Even if it’s difficult. Even if the work seems great. Even if we don’t get very far in our lifetime.
That is our ultimate responsibility as fathers and parents. We try. We hope. We do what we can to build our house upon the sturdiest rock. And when the winds come, and the rains fall, and they beat upon that house, we keep faith that our Father will be there to guide us, and watch over us, and protect us, and lead His children through the darkest of storms into light of a better day. That is my prayer for all of us on this Father’s Day, and that is my hope for this country in the years ahead. May God Bless you and your children. Thank you.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Larry Wall(Father of Perl) Quotes
All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory... :-)
--Larry Wall in <1991Jul13.010945.19157@netlabs.com
%%
Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate
to make 10 ways to do something. :-)
--Larry Wall in <9695@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space,
because that's exactly how much difference there is. :-)
--Larry Wall in <10209@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
"And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose)."
--Larry Wall in <1992Jul3.191825.14435@netlabs.com>
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: And it goes against the grain of building small tools.
Innocent, Your Honor. Perl users build small tools all day long.
--Larry Wall in <1992Aug26.184221.29627@netlabs.com>
%%
/* And you'll never guess what the dog had */
/* in its mouth... */
--Larry Wall in stab.c from the perl source code
%%
Because . doesn't match \n. [\0-\377] is the most efficient way to match
everything currently. Maybe \e should match everything. And \E would
of course match nothing. :-) --Larry Wall in <9847@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
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Be consistent.
--Larry Wall in the perl man page
%%
Besides, including is a fatal error on machines that
don't have it yet. Bad language design, there... :-)
--Larry Wall in <1991Aug22.220929.6857@netlabs.com>
%%
Besides, it's good to force C programmers to use the toolbox occasionally. :-)
--Larry Wall in <1991May31.181659.28817@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>
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Besides, REAL computers have a rename() system call. :-)
--Larry Wall in <7937@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
break; /* don't do magic till later */
--Larry Wall in stab.c from the perl source code
%%
But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you
think you have good news.
--Larry Wall in <1992Aug26.184221.29627@netlabs.com>
%%
Chip Salzenberg sent me a complete patch to add System V IPC (msg, sem and
shm calls), so I added them. If that bothers you, you can always undefine
them in config.sh. :-) --Larry Wall in <9384@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
/* dbmrefcnt--; */ /* doesn't work, rats */
--Larry Wall in hash.c from the perl source code
%%
#define NULL 0 /* silly thing is, we don't even use this */
--Larry Wall in perl.c from the perl source code
%%
#define SIGILL 6 /* blech */
--Larry Wall in perl.c from the perl source code
%%
Does the same as the system call of that name.
If you don't know what it does, don't worry about it.
--Larry Wall in the perl man page regarding chroot(2)
%%
double value; /* or your money back! */
short changed; /* so triple your money back! */
--Larry Wall in cons.c from the perl source code
%%
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is
paved with melting snowballs. --Larry Wall in <1992Jul2.222039.26476@netlabs.com>
%%
echo "Congratulations. You aren't running Eunice."
--Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
%%
echo "Hmmm...you don't have Berkeley networking in libc.a..."
echo "but the Wollongong group seems to have hacked it in."
--Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
%%
echo "ICK, NOTHING WORKED!!! You may have to diddle the includes.";;
--Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
%%
echo $package has manual pages available in source form.
echo "However, you don't have nroff, so they're probably useless to you."
--Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
%%
echo "Your stdio isn't very std."
--Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
%%
#else /* !STDSTDIO */ /* The big, slow, and stupid way */
--Larry Wall in str.c from the perl source code
%%
[End of diatribe. We now return you to your regularly scheduled
programming...]
--Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
%%
Even if you aren't in doubt, consider the mental welfare of the person who
has to maintain the code after you, and who will probably put parens in
the wrong place. --Larry Wall in the perl man page
%%
"Help save the world!" --Larry Wall in README
%%
Hey, I had to let awk be better at *something*... :-)
--Larry Wall in <1991Nov7.200504.25280@netlabs.com>1
%%
I already have too much problem with people thinking the efficiency of
a perl construct is related to its length. On the other hand, I'm
perfectly capable of changing my mind next week... :-) --lwall
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I don't know if it's what you want, but it's what you get. :-)
--Larry Wall in <10502@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
I dunno, I dream in Perl sometimes...
--Larry Wall in <8538@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
If I allowed "next $label" then I'd also have to allow "goto $label",
and I don't think you really want that... :-)
--Larry Wall in <1991Mar11.230002.27271@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>
%%
If I don't document something, it's usually either for a good reason,
or a bad reason. In this case it's a good reason. :-)
--Larry Wall in <1992Jan17.005405.16806@netlabs.com>
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"I find this a nice feature but it is not according to the documentation.
Or is it a BUG?"
"Let's call it an accidental feature. :-)" Larry Wall in <6909@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
if (instr(buf,sys_errlist[errno])) /* you don't see this */
--Larry Wall in eval.c from the perl source code
%%
if (rsfp = mypopen("/bin/mail root","w")) { /* heh, heh */
--Larry Wall in perl.c from the perl source code
%%
If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are
going to start thinking you're from New York. :-)
--Larry Wall to Dan Bernstein in <10187@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
If you want to program in C, program in C. It's a nice language. I
use it occasionally... :-)
--Larry Wall in <7577@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
If you want to see useful Perl examples, we can certainly arrange to have
comp.lang.misc flooded with them, but I don't think that would help the
advance of civilization. :-) --Larry Wall in <1992Mar5.180926.19041@netlabs.com>
%%
If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
--Larry Wall in the perl man page
%%
I know it's weird, but it does make it easier to write poetry in perl. :-)
--Larry Wall in <7865@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
I'll say it again for the logic impaired.
--Larry Wall
%%
I might be able to shoehorn a reference count in on top of the numeric
value by disallowing multiple references on scalars with a numeric value,
but it wouldn't be as clean. I do occasionally worry about that. --lwall
%%
I'm sure that that could be indented more readably, but I'm scared of
the awk parser. --Larry Wall in <6849@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
In general, if you think something isn't in Perl, try it out, because it
usually is. :-)
--Larry Wall in <1991Jul31.174523.9447@netlabs.com>
%%
In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
--Larry Wall in the perl man page
%%
Interestingly enough, since subroutine declarations can come anywhere,
you wouldn't have to put BEGIN {} at the beginning, nor END {} at the
end. Interesting, no? I wonder if Henry would like it. :-) --lwall
%%
I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident. :-)
--Larry Wall on s/foo/bar/eieio in <10911@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
"It is easier to port a shell than a shell script."
--Larry Wall
%%
It is, of course, written in Perl. Translation to C is left as an
exercise for the reader. :-) --Larry Wall in <7448@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
It's all magic. :-) --Larry Wall in <7282@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
It's documented in The Book, somewhere...
--Larry Wall in <10502@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
> (It's sorta like sed, but not. It's sorta like awk, but not. etc.)
Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
--Larry Wall in <1992Aug26.184221.29627@netlabs.com>
%%
It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers. :-)
--Larry Wall regarding 10_000_000 in <11556@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for
something, after all... :-)
--Larry Wall in <10160@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
: I've heard that there is a shell (bourne or csh) to perl filter, does
: anyone know of this or where I can get it?
Yeah, you filter it through Tom Christiansen. :-) --Larry Wall
%%
: I've tried (in vi) "g/[a-z]\n[a-z]/s//_/"...but that doesn't
: cut it. Any ideas? (I take it that it may be a two-pass sort of solution).
In the first pass, install perl. :-) Larry Wall <6849@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into
trouble... :-) --Larry Wall in <11333@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
Just don't compare it with a real language, or you'll be unhappy... :-)
--Larry Wall in <1992May12.190238.5667@netlabs.com>
%%
Just don't create a file called -rf. :-)
--Larry Wall in <11393@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
last|perl -pe '$_ x=/(..:..)...(.*)/&&"'$1'"ge$1&&"'$1'"lt$2'
That's gonna be tough for Randal to beat... :-)
--Larry Wall in <1991Apr29.072206.5621@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>
%%
Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality... :-)
--Larry Wall in <6940@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature :-)
--Larry Wall in <2609@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
%%
Lispers are among the best grads of the Sweep-It-Under-Someone-Else's-Carpet
School of Simulated Simplicity. [Was that sufficiently incendiary? :-)]
--Larry Wall in <1992Jan10.201804.11926@netlabs.com
%%
No, I'm not going to explain it. If you can't figure it out, you didn't
want to know anyway... :-)
--Larry Wall in <1991Aug7.180856.2854@netlabs.com>
%%
/* now make a new head in the exact same spot */
--Larry Wall in cons.c from the perl source code
%%
OK, enough hype.
--Larry Wall in the perl man page
%%
OOPS! You naughty creature! You didn't run Configure with sh!
I will attempt to remedy the situation by running sh for you...
--Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
%%
Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so
consider picking the most readable one.
--Larry Wall in the perl man page
%%
Perl itself is usually pretty good about telling you what you shouldn't do. :-)
--Larry Wall in <11091@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
Perl programming is an *empirical* science!
--Larry Wall in <10226@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
pos += screamnext[pos] /* does this goof up anywhere? */
--Larry Wall in util.c from the perl source code
%%
Q. Why is this so clumsy?
A. The trick is to use Perl's strengths rather than its weaknesses.
--Larry Wall in <8225@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
Randal said it would be tough to do in sed. He didn't say he didn't
understand sed. Randal understands sed quite well. Which is why he
uses Perl. :-) -- Larry Wall in <7874@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. :-)
--Larry Wall in <8571@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
Remember though that
THERE IS NO GENERAL RULE FOR CONVERTING A LIST INTO A SCALAR.
--Larry Wall in the perl man page
%%
s = (char*)(long)retval; /* ouch */
--Larry Wall in doio.c from the perl source code
%%
signal(i, SIG_DFL); /* crunch, crunch, crunch */
--Larry Wall in doarg.c from the perl source code
%%
Sorry. My testing organization is either too small, or too large, depending
on how you look at it. :-)
--Larry Wall in <1991Apr22.175438.8564@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>
%%
stab_val(stab)->str_nok = 1; /* what a wonderful hack! */
--Larry Wall in stab.c from the perl source code
%%
str->str_pok |= SP_FBM; /* deep magic */
s = (unsigned char*)(str->str_ptr); /* deeper magic */
--Larry Wall in util.c from the perl source code
%%
Tactical? TACTICAL!?!? Hey, buddy, we went from kilotons to megatons
several minutes ago. We don't need no stinkin' tactical nukes.
(By the way, do you have change for 10 million people?) --lwall
%%
That means I'll have to use $ans to suppress newlines now.
Life is ridiculous.
--Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
%%
The autodecrement is not magical.
--Larry Wall in the perl man page
%%
The only disadvantage I see is that it would force everyone to get Perl.
Horrors. :-)
--Larry Wall in <8854@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
*** The previous line contains the naughty word "$&".\n
if /(ibm|apple|awk)/; # :-)
--Larry Wall in the perl man page
%%
There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
--Larry Wall in <1992Aug19.041614.6963@netlabs.com>
%%
There are many times when you want it to ignore the rest of the string just
like atof() does. Oddly enough, Perl calls atof(). How convenient. :-)
--Larry Wall in <1991Jun24.231628.14446@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>
%%
There are probably better ways to do that, but it would make the parser
more complex. I do, occasionally, struggle feebly against complexity... :-)
--Larry Wall in <7886@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
There are still some other things to do, so don't think if I didn't fix
your favorite bug that your bug report is in the bit bucket. (It may be,
but don't think it. :-) Larry Wall in <7238@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
There is, however, a strange, musty smell in the air that reminds me of
something...hmm...yes...I've got it...there's a VMS nearby, or I'm a Blit.
--Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
%%
"The road to hell is paved with melting snowballs."
--Larry Wall in <1992Jul2.222039.26476@netlabs.com>
%%
/* This bit of chicanery makes a unary function followed by
a parenthesis into a function with one argument, highest precedence. */
--Larry Wall in toke.c from the perl source code
%%
"...this does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather
dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head."
Larry Wall in <1992Aug6.221512.5963@netlabs.com>
%%
> This made me wonder, suddenly: can telnet be written in perl?
Of course it can be written in Perl. Now if you'd said nroff,
that would be more challenging... --Larry Wall
%%
Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly...
--Larry Wall in <2969@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
%%
tmps_base = tmps_max; /* protect our mortal string */
--Larry Wall in stab.c from the perl source code
%%
Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to
pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.
--Larry Wall in <1992Aug13.192357.15731@netlabs.com>
%%
"We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on
when it's necessary to compromise."
--Larry Wall in <1991Nov13.194420.28091@netlabs.com>
%%
/* we have tried to make this normal case as abnormal as possible */
--Larry Wall in cmd.c from the perl source code
%%
What about WRITING it first and rationalizing it afterwords? :-)
--Larry Wall in <8162@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
: 1. What is the possibility of this being added in the future?
In the near future, the probability is close to zero. In the distant
future, I'll be dead, and posterity can do whatever they like... :-) --lwall
%%
"What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that
people have stopped banging their heads against?"
--Larry Wall in <1992Aug26.184221.29627@netlabs.com>
%%
When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some
poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.
--Larry Wall in the perl man page
%%
"You can't have filenames longer than 14 chars.
You can't even think about them!"
--Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
%%
You have to admit that it's difficult to misplace the Perl sources. :-)
--Larry Wall in <1992Aug26.184221.29627@netlabs.com>
%%
Your csh still thinks true is false. Write to your vendor today and tell
them that next year Configure ought to "rm /bin/csh" unless they fix their
blasted shell. :-) --Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
%%
You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns? :-)
--Larry Wall in <7349@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
--Larry Wall in <1991Jul13.010945.19157@netlabs.com
%%
Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate
to make 10 ways to do something. :-)
--Larry Wall in <9695@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space,
because that's exactly how much difference there is. :-)
--Larry Wall in <10209@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
"And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose)."
--Larry Wall in <1992Jul3.191825.14435@netlabs.com>
%%
: And it goes against the grain of building small tools.
Innocent, Your Honor. Perl users build small tools all day long.
--Larry Wall in <1992Aug26.184221.29627@netlabs.com>
%%
/* And you'll never guess what the dog had */
/* in its mouth... */
--Larry Wall in stab.c from the perl source code
%%
Because . doesn't match \n. [\0-\377] is the most efficient way to match
everything currently. Maybe \e should match everything. And \E would
of course match nothing. :-) --Larry Wall in <9847@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
Be consistent.
--Larry Wall in the perl man page
%%
Besides, including
don't have it yet. Bad language design, there... :-)
--Larry Wall in <1991Aug22.220929.6857@netlabs.com>
%%
Besides, it's good to force C programmers to use the toolbox occasionally. :-)
--Larry Wall in <1991May31.181659.28817@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>
%%
Besides, REAL computers have a rename() system call. :-)
--Larry Wall in <7937@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
break; /* don't do magic till later */
--Larry Wall in stab.c from the perl source code
%%
But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you
think you have good news.
--Larry Wall in <1992Aug26.184221.29627@netlabs.com>
%%
Chip Salzenberg sent me a complete patch to add System V IPC (msg, sem and
shm calls), so I added them. If that bothers you, you can always undefine
them in config.sh. :-) --Larry Wall in <9384@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
/* dbmrefcnt--; */ /* doesn't work, rats */
--Larry Wall in hash.c from the perl source code
%%
#define NULL 0 /* silly thing is, we don't even use this */
--Larry Wall in perl.c from the perl source code
%%
#define SIGILL 6 /* blech */
--Larry Wall in perl.c from the perl source code
%%
Does the same as the system call of that name.
If you don't know what it does, don't worry about it.
--Larry Wall in the perl man page regarding chroot(2)
%%
double value; /* or your money back! */
short changed; /* so triple your money back! */
--Larry Wall in cons.c from the perl source code
%%
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is
paved with melting snowballs. --Larry Wall in <1992Jul2.222039.26476@netlabs.com>
%%
echo "Congratulations. You aren't running Eunice."
--Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
%%
echo "Hmmm...you don't have Berkeley networking in libc.a..."
echo "but the Wollongong group seems to have hacked it in."
--Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
%%
echo "ICK, NOTHING WORKED!!! You may have to diddle the includes.";;
--Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
%%
echo $package has manual pages available in source form.
echo "However, you don't have nroff, so they're probably useless to you."
--Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
%%
echo "Your stdio isn't very std."
--Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
%%
#else /* !STDSTDIO */ /* The big, slow, and stupid way */
--Larry Wall in str.c from the perl source code
%%
[End of diatribe. We now return you to your regularly scheduled
programming...]
--Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
%%
Even if you aren't in doubt, consider the mental welfare of the person who
has to maintain the code after you, and who will probably put parens in
the wrong place. --Larry Wall in the perl man page
%%
"Help save the world!" --Larry Wall in README
%%
Hey, I had to let awk be better at *something*... :-)
--Larry Wall in <1991Nov7.200504.25280@netlabs.com>1
%%
I already have too much problem with people thinking the efficiency of
a perl construct is related to its length. On the other hand, I'm
perfectly capable of changing my mind next week... :-) --lwall
%%
I don't know if it's what you want, but it's what you get. :-)
--Larry Wall in <10502@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
I dunno, I dream in Perl sometimes...
--Larry Wall in <8538@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
If I allowed "next $label" then I'd also have to allow "goto $label",
and I don't think you really want that... :-)
--Larry Wall in <1991Mar11.230002.27271@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>
%%
If I don't document something, it's usually either for a good reason,
or a bad reason. In this case it's a good reason. :-)
--Larry Wall in <1992Jan17.005405.16806@netlabs.com>
%%
"I find this a nice feature but it is not according to the documentation.
Or is it a BUG?"
"Let's call it an accidental feature. :-)" Larry Wall in <6909@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
if (instr(buf,sys_errlist[errno])) /* you don't see this */
--Larry Wall in eval.c from the perl source code
%%
if (rsfp = mypopen("/bin/mail root","w")) { /* heh, heh */
--Larry Wall in perl.c from the perl source code
%%
If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are
going to start thinking you're from New York. :-)
--Larry Wall to Dan Bernstein in <10187@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
If you want to program in C, program in C. It's a nice language. I
use it occasionally... :-)
--Larry Wall in <7577@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
If you want to see useful Perl examples, we can certainly arrange to have
comp.lang.misc flooded with them, but I don't think that would help the
advance of civilization. :-) --Larry Wall in <1992Mar5.180926.19041@netlabs.com>
%%
If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
--Larry Wall in the perl man page
%%
I know it's weird, but it does make it easier to write poetry in perl. :-)
--Larry Wall in <7865@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
I'll say it again for the logic impaired.
--Larry Wall
%%
I might be able to shoehorn a reference count in on top of the numeric
value by disallowing multiple references on scalars with a numeric value,
but it wouldn't be as clean. I do occasionally worry about that. --lwall
%%
I'm sure that that could be indented more readably, but I'm scared of
the awk parser. --Larry Wall in <6849@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
In general, if you think something isn't in Perl, try it out, because it
usually is. :-)
--Larry Wall in <1991Jul31.174523.9447@netlabs.com>
%%
In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
--Larry Wall in the perl man page
%%
Interestingly enough, since subroutine declarations can come anywhere,
you wouldn't have to put BEGIN {} at the beginning, nor END {} at the
end. Interesting, no? I wonder if Henry would like it. :-) --lwall
%%
I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident. :-)
--Larry Wall on s/foo/bar/eieio in <10911@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
"It is easier to port a shell than a shell script."
--Larry Wall
%%
It is, of course, written in Perl. Translation to C is left as an
exercise for the reader. :-) --Larry Wall in <7448@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
It's all magic. :-) --Larry Wall in <7282@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
It's documented in The Book, somewhere...
--Larry Wall in <10502@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
> (It's sorta like sed, but not. It's sorta like awk, but not. etc.)
Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
--Larry Wall in <1992Aug26.184221.29627@netlabs.com>
%%
It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers. :-)
--Larry Wall regarding 10_000_000 in <11556@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for
something, after all... :-)
--Larry Wall in <10160@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
: I've heard that there is a shell (bourne or csh) to perl filter, does
: anyone know of this or where I can get it?
Yeah, you filter it through Tom Christiansen. :-) --Larry Wall
%%
: I've tried (in vi) "g/[a-z]\n[a-z]/s//_/"...but that doesn't
: cut it. Any ideas? (I take it that it may be a two-pass sort of solution).
In the first pass, install perl. :-) Larry Wall <6849@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into
trouble... :-) --Larry Wall in <11333@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
Just don't compare it with a real language, or you'll be unhappy... :-)
--Larry Wall in <1992May12.190238.5667@netlabs.com>
%%
Just don't create a file called -rf. :-)
--Larry Wall in <11393@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
last|perl -pe '$_ x=/(..:..)...(.*)/&&"'$1'"ge$1&&"'$1'"lt$2'
That's gonna be tough for Randal to beat... :-)
--Larry Wall in <1991Apr29.072206.5621@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>
%%
Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality... :-)
--Larry Wall in <6940@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature :-)
--Larry Wall in <2609@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
%%
Lispers are among the best grads of the Sweep-It-Under-Someone-Else's-Carpet
School of Simulated Simplicity. [Was that sufficiently incendiary? :-)]
--Larry Wall in <1992Jan10.201804.11926@netlabs.com
%%
No, I'm not going to explain it. If you can't figure it out, you didn't
want to know anyway... :-)
--Larry Wall in <1991Aug7.180856.2854@netlabs.com>
%%
/* now make a new head in the exact same spot */
--Larry Wall in cons.c from the perl source code
%%
OK, enough hype.
--Larry Wall in the perl man page
%%
OOPS! You naughty creature! You didn't run Configure with sh!
I will attempt to remedy the situation by running sh for you...
--Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
%%
Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so
consider picking the most readable one.
--Larry Wall in the perl man page
%%
Perl itself is usually pretty good about telling you what you shouldn't do. :-)
--Larry Wall in <11091@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
Perl programming is an *empirical* science!
--Larry Wall in <10226@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
pos += screamnext[pos] /* does this goof up anywhere? */
--Larry Wall in util.c from the perl source code
%%
Q. Why is this so clumsy?
A. The trick is to use Perl's strengths rather than its weaknesses.
--Larry Wall in <8225@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
Randal said it would be tough to do in sed. He didn't say he didn't
understand sed. Randal understands sed quite well. Which is why he
uses Perl. :-) -- Larry Wall in <7874@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. :-)
--Larry Wall in <8571@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
Remember though that
THERE IS NO GENERAL RULE FOR CONVERTING A LIST INTO A SCALAR.
--Larry Wall in the perl man page
%%
s = (char*)(long)retval; /* ouch */
--Larry Wall in doio.c from the perl source code
%%
signal(i, SIG_DFL); /* crunch, crunch, crunch */
--Larry Wall in doarg.c from the perl source code
%%
Sorry. My testing organization is either too small, or too large, depending
on how you look at it. :-)
--Larry Wall in <1991Apr22.175438.8564@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>
%%
stab_val(stab)->str_nok = 1; /* what a wonderful hack! */
--Larry Wall in stab.c from the perl source code
%%
str->str_pok |= SP_FBM; /* deep magic */
s = (unsigned char*)(str->str_ptr); /* deeper magic */
--Larry Wall in util.c from the perl source code
%%
Tactical? TACTICAL!?!? Hey, buddy, we went from kilotons to megatons
several minutes ago. We don't need no stinkin' tactical nukes.
(By the way, do you have change for 10 million people?) --lwall
%%
That means I'll have to use $ans to suppress newlines now.
Life is ridiculous.
--Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
%%
The autodecrement is not magical.
--Larry Wall in the perl man page
%%
The only disadvantage I see is that it would force everyone to get Perl.
Horrors. :-)
--Larry Wall in <8854@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
*** The previous line contains the naughty word "$&".\n
if /(ibm|apple|awk)/; # :-)
--Larry Wall in the perl man page
%%
There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
--Larry Wall in <1992Aug19.041614.6963@netlabs.com>
%%
There are many times when you want it to ignore the rest of the string just
like atof() does. Oddly enough, Perl calls atof(). How convenient. :-)
--Larry Wall in <1991Jun24.231628.14446@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>
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There are probably better ways to do that, but it would make the parser
more complex. I do, occasionally, struggle feebly against complexity... :-)
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There are still some other things to do, so don't think if I didn't fix
your favorite bug that your bug report is in the bit bucket. (It may be,
but don't think it. :-) Larry Wall in <7238@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
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There is, however, a strange, musty smell in the air that reminds me of
something...hmm...yes...I've got it...there's a VMS nearby, or I'm a Blit.
--Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
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"The road to hell is paved with melting snowballs."
--Larry Wall in <1992Jul2.222039.26476@netlabs.com>
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/* This bit of chicanery makes a unary function followed by
a parenthesis into a function with one argument, highest precedence. */
--Larry Wall in toke.c from the perl source code
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"...this does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather
dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head."
Larry Wall in <1992Aug6.221512.5963@netlabs.com>
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> This made me wonder, suddenly: can telnet be written in perl?
Of course it can be written in Perl. Now if you'd said nroff,
that would be more challenging... --Larry Wall
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly...
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tmps_base = tmps_max; /* protect our mortal string */
--Larry Wall in stab.c from the perl source code
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Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to
pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.
--Larry Wall in <1992Aug13.192357.15731@netlabs.com>
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"We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on
when it's necessary to compromise."
--Larry Wall in <1991Nov13.194420.28091@netlabs.com>
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/* we have tried to make this normal case as abnormal as possible */
--Larry Wall in cmd.c from the perl source code
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What about WRITING it first and rationalizing it afterwords? :-)
--Larry Wall in <8162@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
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: 1. What is the possibility of this being added in the future?
In the near future, the probability is close to zero. In the distant
future, I'll be dead, and posterity can do whatever they like... :-) --lwall
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"What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that
people have stopped banging their heads against?"
--Larry Wall in <1992Aug26.184221.29627@netlabs.com>
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When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some
poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.
--Larry Wall in the perl man page
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"You can't have filenames longer than 14 chars.
You can't even think about them!"
--Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
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You have to admit that it's difficult to misplace the Perl sources. :-)
--Larry Wall in <1992Aug26.184221.29627@netlabs.com>
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Your csh still thinks true is false. Write to your vendor today and tell
them that next year Configure ought to "rm /bin/csh" unless they fix their
blasted shell. :-) --Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
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You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns? :-)
--Larry Wall in <7349@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
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JK Rowling(Harry Potter Author) To Harvard: ‘Do Not Fear Failure, Fear Me Instead! Me!’
June 6th, 2008 at 14:00 by Stuart Heritage
JK Rowling has captured the imagination of the young, and every now and again she puts cigarettes out on its arm until it tells her how to get richer.
This makes JK Rowling the most uniquely qualified person on the face of the earth to speak at Harvard University’s spring commencement yesterday. For only JK Rowling can fill those students’ young hearts with the hope that they too can one day rip off the Narnia books and make a sodding fortune out of it.
In her spring commencement speech, JK Rowling told the Harvard students not to fear failure, that they should never let go of their imagination and that real strength of character comes through adversity - proof that if her money ever runs out, JK Rowling has a lucrative future writing inserts for those horrible aspirational greetings cards that only creepy friendless wimps buy.
You know what the most insufferable invention of all time is? Spring commencement, that’s what. A ghastly self-congratulatory aren’t-we-great parade of ‘cherish the moment and be all you can be’ oversincerity that people apparently manage to sit through without vomiting, spring commencement is essentially the last shove that university students get before they forge long-lasting careers for themselves as the sad-eyed people who stand in town holding signs for Subway sandwiches in the rain. It’s dreadful.
But it’s not entirely worthless, because occasionally famous people get to dust off their Big Book Of Mawkish Catch-All Sentiments and indirectly explain exactly how rich and successful they are to the outgoing students. This year at Harvard, it was Harry Potter creator JK Rowling’s turn to do exactly that.
And JK Rowling really had her work cut out for her, because she knew only too well that the sheer scale of deprivation among Harvard students has rendered them completely hopeless - several of them won’t be given flashy-sounding but meaningless vice president jobs in their fathers’ corporations for up to 18 months, and it breaks our heart to report that a handful of them don’t even own yachts yet.
So yesterday in her spring commencement speech, JK Rowling dug deep and basically went through the lyrics of The Greatest Love Of All, changing all the words with a thesaurus to make it sound cleverer. The Associated Press reports:
“We do not need magic to transform our world,” she said. “We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already; we have the power to imagine better.” Imagination gives one the ability to empathize with others, she said. “Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation,” Rowling said. “In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity; it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.”
“But don’t your imagination to write children’s book about wizards,” JK Rowling added, “because that’s my turf and I’ll sue your bollocks off if any of you little fuckers try it.”
Honestly, those Harvard students get it all handed to them on a plate. In the space of one year they’ve had talks by both Paris Hilton and JK Rowling - and the knowledge gained by those two speakers means that they’re now perfectly primed to grow up and become the next generation of global leaders.
Well, that or they’ll suck a bunch of men off and then make a rubbish-sounding theme park about it. One or the other.
JK Rowling has captured the imagination of the young, and every now and again she puts cigarettes out on its arm until it tells her how to get richer.
This makes JK Rowling the most uniquely qualified person on the face of the earth to speak at Harvard University’s spring commencement yesterday. For only JK Rowling can fill those students’ young hearts with the hope that they too can one day rip off the Narnia books and make a sodding fortune out of it.
In her spring commencement speech, JK Rowling told the Harvard students not to fear failure, that they should never let go of their imagination and that real strength of character comes through adversity - proof that if her money ever runs out, JK Rowling has a lucrative future writing inserts for those horrible aspirational greetings cards that only creepy friendless wimps buy.
You know what the most insufferable invention of all time is? Spring commencement, that’s what. A ghastly self-congratulatory aren’t-we-great parade of ‘cherish the moment and be all you can be’ oversincerity that people apparently manage to sit through without vomiting, spring commencement is essentially the last shove that university students get before they forge long-lasting careers for themselves as the sad-eyed people who stand in town holding signs for Subway sandwiches in the rain. It’s dreadful.
But it’s not entirely worthless, because occasionally famous people get to dust off their Big Book Of Mawkish Catch-All Sentiments and indirectly explain exactly how rich and successful they are to the outgoing students. This year at Harvard, it was Harry Potter creator JK Rowling’s turn to do exactly that.
And JK Rowling really had her work cut out for her, because she knew only too well that the sheer scale of deprivation among Harvard students has rendered them completely hopeless - several of them won’t be given flashy-sounding but meaningless vice president jobs in their fathers’ corporations for up to 18 months, and it breaks our heart to report that a handful of them don’t even own yachts yet.
So yesterday in her spring commencement speech, JK Rowling dug deep and basically went through the lyrics of The Greatest Love Of All, changing all the words with a thesaurus to make it sound cleverer. The Associated Press reports:
“We do not need magic to transform our world,” she said. “We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already; we have the power to imagine better.” Imagination gives one the ability to empathize with others, she said. “Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation,” Rowling said. “In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity; it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.”
“But don’t your imagination to write children’s book about wizards,” JK Rowling added, “because that’s my turf and I’ll sue your bollocks off if any of you little fuckers try it.”
Honestly, those Harvard students get it all handed to them on a plate. In the space of one year they’ve had talks by both Paris Hilton and JK Rowling - and the knowledge gained by those two speakers means that they’re now perfectly primed to grow up and become the next generation of global leaders.
Well, that or they’ll suck a bunch of men off and then make a rubbish-sounding theme park about it. One or the other.
Famous Commencement Speeches
The commencement ceremony affirms each student's search for knowledge. It often includes a graduation speech which seeks to put their recent hard (or not so hard) work into the context of their future. Many of us hear one or two commencement addresses as graduates or listen to a handful as spectators. Yet -- as we graduate from one year to another, one relationship to another, one experience to another -- we always are learning.
Though these myriad departures and arrivals of everyday existence are seldom met with ceremony, words traditionally reserved for momentous occasions may ring true and inspirational at any hour. That's why we created this unique archive of commencement addresses, selecting an eclectic menu of twenty nine extraordinary speeches from the thousands that we have reviewed since beginning work on this initiative in 1989.
Though some of these wonderful remarks were given decades ago, we believe they are as relevant and important, perhaps increasingly so, as the more current speeches. Thus we encourage you to read them all, recognizing and celebrating your own constant commencement into tomorrow, finding ways to place it firmly within the context of progress for all humankind.
- Tony Balis
INDEX OF OUTSTANDING SPEECHES FROM 1936 TO 2008
Barack Obama
"Make Us Believe Again"Wesleyan University, 2008
Barbara Kingsolver
"Your Money or Your Life"Duke University, 2008
Bill Gates
"Great Expectations"Harvard University, 2007
Alice Greenwald
"Why Does Memory Matter?"Sarah Lawrence College, 2007
Ken Burns
"A Vanguard Against this New Separatism"Georgetown University, 2006
Steve Jobs
"Find What You Love "Stanford University, 2005
Thomas L. Friedman
"Listen to Your Heart "Williams College, 2005
Toni Morrison
"Be Your Own Story "Wellesley College, 2004
Bono
"That's not a cause. That's an emergency."University of Pennsylvania, 2004
Lewis Lapham
"Merlin's Owl"St. John's College - Annapolis, 2003
Wally Lamb
"What do Novelists Know?"Connecticut College, 2003
Martha C. Nussbaum
"Compassion and Global Responsibility"Georgetown University, 2003
Daniel S. Goldin
"Gallileo and the Search for Truth"Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001
Madelaine K. Albright
University of California, Berkeley, 2000with response from Fadia Rafeedie, a Palestinian student
Desmond Tutu
"Fly, Eagle, Fly!"Brandeis University, 2000
Aung San Suu Kyi
Bucknell University, 1999
Richard N. Kaplan
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999
The Dalai Lama
"Education and the warm heart"Emory University, 1998
Roger Rosenblatt
"Get A Job"Brigham Young University, 1998
Elie Wiesel
"Learning and Respect" DePaul University, 1997
Russell Baker
"10 Ways to Avoid Mucking Up the World Any Worse Than It Already Is."Connecticut College, 1995
Vaclav Havel
"Civilization's Thin Veneer"Harvard University, 1995
Gordon Matthew Sumner
Berklee College of Music, 1994
Romulus Linney
Oberlin Collge, 1994
Cornel West
Wesleyan University, 1993
Robert E. Leestamper
Richmond College, London, 1989
Meg Greenfield
"A Better Truth"Williams College, 1987
Gloria Steinem
Tufts University, 1987
Margaret Atwood
University Of Toronto, 1983
Ursula Le Guin
"A Left-Handed Commencement Address"Mills College, 1983
Alan Alda
"The Wilderness of Your Intuition "Connecticut College, 1980
William Gass
"Learning to Talk"Washington University, 1979
Theodor Seuss Geisel
"My Uncle Terwilliger on the Art of Eating Popovers"Commencement poem at Lake Forest College, 1977
John F. Kennedy
American University, 1963
George C. Marshall
"The Marshall Plan"Harvard University, 1947
William Allen White
Northwestern University, 1936
Though these myriad departures and arrivals of everyday existence are seldom met with ceremony, words traditionally reserved for momentous occasions may ring true and inspirational at any hour. That's why we created this unique archive of commencement addresses, selecting an eclectic menu of twenty nine extraordinary speeches from the thousands that we have reviewed since beginning work on this initiative in 1989.
Though some of these wonderful remarks were given decades ago, we believe they are as relevant and important, perhaps increasingly so, as the more current speeches. Thus we encourage you to read them all, recognizing and celebrating your own constant commencement into tomorrow, finding ways to place it firmly within the context of progress for all humankind.
- Tony Balis
INDEX OF OUTSTANDING SPEECHES FROM 1936 TO 2008
Barack Obama
"Make Us Believe Again"Wesleyan University, 2008
Barbara Kingsolver
"Your Money or Your Life"Duke University, 2008
Bill Gates
"Great Expectations"Harvard University, 2007
Alice Greenwald
"Why Does Memory Matter?"Sarah Lawrence College, 2007
Ken Burns
"A Vanguard Against this New Separatism"Georgetown University, 2006
Steve Jobs
"Find What You Love "Stanford University, 2005
Thomas L. Friedman
"Listen to Your Heart "Williams College, 2005
Toni Morrison
"Be Your Own Story "Wellesley College, 2004
Bono
"That's not a cause. That's an emergency."University of Pennsylvania, 2004
Lewis Lapham
"Merlin's Owl"St. John's College - Annapolis, 2003
Wally Lamb
"What do Novelists Know?"Connecticut College, 2003
Martha C. Nussbaum
"Compassion and Global Responsibility"Georgetown University, 2003
Daniel S. Goldin
"Gallileo and the Search for Truth"Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001
Madelaine K. Albright
University of California, Berkeley, 2000with response from Fadia Rafeedie, a Palestinian student
Desmond Tutu
"Fly, Eagle, Fly!"Brandeis University, 2000
Aung San Suu Kyi
Bucknell University, 1999
Richard N. Kaplan
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999
The Dalai Lama
"Education and the warm heart"Emory University, 1998
Roger Rosenblatt
"Get A Job"Brigham Young University, 1998
Elie Wiesel
"Learning and Respect" DePaul University, 1997
Russell Baker
"10 Ways to Avoid Mucking Up the World Any Worse Than It Already Is."Connecticut College, 1995
Vaclav Havel
"Civilization's Thin Veneer"Harvard University, 1995
Gordon Matthew Sumner
Berklee College of Music, 1994
Romulus Linney
Oberlin Collge, 1994
Cornel West
Wesleyan University, 1993
Robert E. Leestamper
Richmond College, London, 1989
Meg Greenfield
"A Better Truth"Williams College, 1987
Gloria Steinem
Tufts University, 1987
Margaret Atwood
University Of Toronto, 1983
Ursula Le Guin
"A Left-Handed Commencement Address"Mills College, 1983
Alan Alda
"The Wilderness of Your Intuition "Connecticut College, 1980
William Gass
"Learning to Talk"Washington University, 1979
Theodor Seuss Geisel
"My Uncle Terwilliger on the Art of Eating Popovers"Commencement poem at Lake Forest College, 1977
John F. Kennedy
American University, 1963
George C. Marshall
"The Marshall Plan"Harvard University, 1947
William Allen White
Northwestern University, 1936
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Hillary's Final Election Speech
We hope you had a chance to see Hillary's historic speech today. You can view an excerpt on our website.
Click here to watch the video excerpt of Hillary's speech.
We have also included the transcript of the full speech below.
Thank you for all your support!
--The Hillary for President Campaign
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Thank you so much. Thank you all.
Well, this isn’t exactly the party I’d planned, but I sure like the company.
I want to start today by saying how grateful I am to all of you – to everyone who poured your hearts and your hopes into this campaign, who drove for miles and lined the streets waving homemade signs, who scrimped and saved to raise money, who knocked on doors and made calls, who talked and sometimes argued with your friends and neighbors, who emailed and contributed online, who invested so much in our common enterprise, to the moms and dads who came to our events, who lifted their little girls and little boys on their shoulders and whispered in their ears, “See, you can be anything you want to be.”
To the young people like 13 year-old Ann Riddle from Mayfield, Ohio who had been saving for two years to go to Disney World, and decided to use her savings instead to travel to Pennsylvania with her Mom and volunteer there as well. To the veterans and the childhood friends, to New Yorkers and Arkansans who traveled across the country and telling anyone who would listen why you supported me.
To all those women in their 80s and their 90s born before women could vote who cast their votes for our campaign. I’ve told you before about Florence Steen of South Dakota, who was 88 years old, and insisted that her daughter bring an absentee ballot to her hospice bedside. Her daughter and a friend put an American flag behind her bed and helped her fill out the ballot. She passed away soon after, and under state law, her ballot didn’t count. But her daughter later told a reporter, “My dad’s an ornery old cowboy, and he didn’t like it when he heard mom’s vote wouldn’t be counted. I don’t think he had voted in 20 years. But he voted in place of my mom.”
To all those who voted for me, and to whom I pledged my utmost, my commitment to you and to the progress we seek is unyielding. You have inspired and touched me with the stories of the joys and sorrows that make up the fabric of our lives and you have humbled me with your commitment to our country.
18 million of you from all walks of life – women and men, young and old, Latino and Asian, African-American and Caucasian, rich, poor and middle class, gay and straight – you have stood strong with me. And I will continue to stand strong with you, every time, every place, and every way that I can. The dreams we share are worth fighting for.
Remember - we fought for the single mom with a young daughter, juggling work and school, who told me, “I’m doing it all to better myself for her.” We fought for the woman who grabbed my hand, and asked me, “What are you going to do to make sure I have health care?” and began to cry because even though she works three jobs, she can’t afford insurance. We fought for the young man in the Marine Corps t-shirt who waited months for medical care and said, “Take care of my buddies over there and then, will you please help take care of me?” We fought for all those who’ve lost jobs and health care, who can’t afford gas or groceries or college, who have felt invisible to their president these last seven years.
I entered this race because I have an old-fashioned conviction: that public service is about helping people solve their problems and live their dreams. I’ve had every opportunity and blessing in my own life – and I want the same for all Americans. Until that day comes, you will always find me on the front lines of democracy – fighting for the future.
The way to continue our fight now – to accomplish the goals for which we stand – is to take our energy, our passion, our strength and do all we can to help elect Barack Obama the next President of the United States.
Today, as I suspend my campaign, I congratulate him on the victory he has won and the extraordinary race he has run. I endorse him, and throw my full support behind him. And I ask all of you to join me in working as hard for Barack Obama as you have for me.
I have served in the Senate with him for four years. I have been in this campaign with him for 16 months. I have stood on the stage and gone toe-to-toe with him in 22 debates. I have had a front row seat to his candidacy, and I have seen his strength and determination, his grace and his grit.
In his own life, Barack Obama has lived the American Dream. As a community organizer, in the state senate, as a United States Senator - he has dedicated himself to ensuring the dream is realized. And in this campaign, he has inspired so many to become involved in the democratic process and invested in our common future.
Now when I started this race, I intended to win back the White House, and make sure we have a president who puts our country back on the path to peace, prosperity, and progress. And that's exactly what we're going to do by ensuring that Barack Obama walks through the doors of the Oval Office on January 20, 2009.
I understand that we all know this has been a tough fight. The Democratic Party is a family, and it’s now time to restore the ties that bind us together and to come together around the ideals we share, the values we cherish, and the country we love.
We may have started on separate journeys – but today, our paths have merged. And we are all heading toward the same destination, united and more ready than ever to win in November and to turn our country around because so much is at stake.
We all want an economy that sustains the American Dream, the opportunity to work hard and have that work rewarded, to save for college, a home and retirement, to afford that gas and those groceries and still have a little left over at the end of the month. An economy that lifts all of our people and ensures that our prosperity is broadly distributed and shared.
We all want a health care system that is universal, high quality, and affordable so that parents no longer have to choose between care for themselves or their children or be stuck in dead end jobs simply to keep their insurance. This isn’t just an issue for me – it is a passion and a cause – and it is a fight I will continue until every single American is insured – no exceptions, no excuses.
We all want an America defined by deep and meaningful equality – from civil rights to labor rights, from women’s rights to gay rights, from ending discrimination to promoting unionization to providing help for the most important job there is: caring for our families.
We all want to restore America’s standing in the world, to end the war in Iraq and once again lead by the power of our values, and to join with our allies to confront our shared challenges from poverty and genocide to terrorism and global warming.
You know, I’ve been involved in politics and public life in one way or another for four decades. During those forty years, our country has voted ten times for President. Democrats won only three of those times. And the man who won two of those elections is with us today.
We made tremendous progress during the 90s under a Democratic President, with a flourishing economy, and our leadership for peace and security respected around the world. Just think how much more progress we could have made over the past 40 years if we had a Democratic president. Think about the lost opportunities of these past seven years – on the environment and the economy, on health care and civil rights, on education, foreign policy and the Supreme Court. Imagine how far we could’ve come, how much we could’ve achieved if we had just had a Democrat in the White House.
We cannot let this moment slip away. We have come too far and accomplished too much.
Now the journey ahead will not be easy. Some will say we can’t do it. That it’s too hard. That we’re just not up to the task. But for as long as America has existed, it has been the American way to reject “can’t do” claims, and to choose instead to stretch the boundaries of the possible through hard work, determination, and a pioneering spirit.
It is this belief, this optimism, that Senator Obama and I share, and that has inspired so many millions of our supporters to make their voices heard.
So today, I am standing with Senator Obama to say: Yes we can.
Together we will work. We’ll have to work hard to get universal health care. But on the day we live in an America where no child, no man, and no woman is without health insurance, we will live in a stronger America. That’s why we need to help elect Barack Obama our President.
We’ll have to work hard to get back to fiscal responsibility and a strong middle class. But on the day we live in an America whose middle class is thriving and growing again, where all Americans, no matter where they live or where their ancestors came from, can earn a decent living, we will live in a stronger America and that is why we must elect Barack Obama our President.
We’ll have to work hard to foster the innovation that makes us energy independent and lift the threat of global warming from our children’s future. But on the day we live in an America fueled by renewable energy, we will live in a stronger America. That’s why we have to help elect Barack Obama our President.
We’ll have to work hard to bring our troops home from Iraq, and get them the support they’ve earned by their service. But on the day we live in an America that’s as loyal to our troops as they have been to us, we will live in a stronger America and that is why we must help elect Barack Obama our President.
This election is a turning point election and it is critical that we all understand what our choice really is. Will we go forward together or will we stall and slip backwards. Think how much progress we have already made. When we first started, people everywhere asked the same questions:
Could a woman really serve as Commander-in-Chief? Well, I think we answered that one.
And could an African American really be our President? Senator Obama has answered that one.
Together Senator Obama and I achieved milestones essential to our progress as a nation, part of our perpetual duty to form a more perfect union.
Now, on a personal note – when I was asked what it means to be a woman running for President, I always gave the same answer: that I was proud to be running as a woman but I was running because I thought I’d be the best President. But I am a woman, and like millions of women, I know there are still barriers and biases out there, often unconscious.
I want to build an America that respects and embraces the potential of every last one of us.
I ran as a daughter who benefited from opportunities my mother never dreamed of. I ran as a mother who worries about my daughter’s future and a mother who wants to lead all children to brighter tomorrows. To build that future I see, we must make sure that women and men alike understand the struggles of their grandmothers and mothers, and that women enjoy equal opportunities, equal pay, and equal respect. Let us resolve and work toward achieving some very simple propositions: There are no acceptable limits and there are no acceptable prejudices in the twenty-first century.
You can be so proud that, from now on, it will be unremarkable for a woman to win primary state victories, unremarkable to have a woman in a close race to be our nominee, unremarkable to think that a woman can be the President of the United States. And that is truly remarkable.
To those who are disappointed that we couldn’t go all the way – especially the young people who put so much into this campaign – it would break my heart if, in falling short of my goal, I in any way discouraged any of you from pursuing yours. Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply about what you believe in. When you stumble, keep faith. When you’re knocked down, get right back up. And never listen to anyone who says you can’t or shouldn’t go on.
As we gather here today in this historic magnificent building, the 50th woman to leave this Earth is orbiting overhead. If we can blast 50 women into space, we will someday launch a woman into the White House.
Although we weren’t able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it’s got about 18 million cracks in it. And the light is shining through like never before, filling us all with the hope and the sure knowledge that the path will be a little easier next time. That has always been the history of progress in America.
Think of the suffragists who gathered at Seneca Falls in 1848 and those who kept fighting until women could cast their votes. Think of the abolitionists who struggled and died to see the end of slavery. Think of the civil rights heroes and foot-soldiers who marched, protested and risked their lives to bring about the end to segregation and Jim Crow.
Because of them, I grew up taking for granted that women could vote. Because of them, my daughter grew up taking for granted that children of all colors could go to school together. Because of them, Barack Obama and I could wage a hard fought campaign for the Democratic nomination. Because of them, and because of you, children today will grow up taking for granted that an African American or a woman can yes, become President of the United States.
When that day arrives and a woman takes the oath of office as our President, we will all stand taller, proud of the values of our nation, proud that every little girl can dream and that her dreams can come true in America. And all of you will know that because of your passion and hard work you helped pave the way for that day.
So I want to say to my supporters, when you hear people saying – or think to yourself – “if only” or “what if,” I say, “please don’t go there.” Every moment wasted looking back keeps us from moving forward.
Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together for what still can be. And that is why I will work my heart out to make sure that Senator Obama is our next President and I hope and pray that all of you will join me in that effort.
To my supporters and colleagues in Congress, to the governors and mayors, elected officials who stood with me, in good times and in bad, thank you for your strength and leadership. To my friends in our labor unions who stood strong every step of the way – I thank you and pledge my support to you. To my friends, from every stage of my life – your love and ongoing commitments sustain me every single day. To my family – especially Bill and Chelsea and my mother, you mean the world to me and I thank you for all you have done. And to my extraordinary staff, volunteers and supporters, thank you for working those long, hard hours. Thank you for dropping everything – leaving work or school – traveling to places you’d never been, sometimes for months on end. And thanks to your families as well because your sacrifice was theirs too.
All of you were there for me every step of the way. Being human, we are imperfect. That’s why we need each other. To catch each other when we falter. To encourage each other when we lose heart. Some may lead; others may follow; but none of us can go it alone. The changes we’re working for are changes that we can only accomplish together. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are rights that belong to each of us as individuals. But our lives, our freedom, our happiness, are best enjoyed, best protected, and best advanced when we do work together.
That is what we will do now as we join forces with Senator Obama and his campaign. We will make history together as we write the next chapter in America’s story. We will stand united for the values we hold dear, for the vision of progress we share, and for the country we love. There is nothing more American than that.
And looking out at you today, I have never felt so blessed. The challenges that I have faced in this campaign are nothing compared to those that millions of Americans face every day in their own lives. So today, I’m going to count my blessings and keep on going. I’m going to keep doing what I was doing long before the cameras ever showed up and what I’ll be doing long after they’re gone: Working to give every American the same opportunities I had, and working to ensure that every child has the chance to grow up and achieve his or her God-given potential.
I will do it with a heart filled with gratitude, with a deep and abiding love for our country– and with nothing but optimism and confidence for the days ahead. This is now our time to do all that we can to make sure that in this election we add another Democratic president to that very small list of the last 40 years and that we take back our country and once again move with progress and commitment to the future.
Thank you all and God bless you and God bless America.
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--The Hillary for President Campaign
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Thank you so much. Thank you all.
Well, this isn’t exactly the party I’d planned, but I sure like the company.
I want to start today by saying how grateful I am to all of you – to everyone who poured your hearts and your hopes into this campaign, who drove for miles and lined the streets waving homemade signs, who scrimped and saved to raise money, who knocked on doors and made calls, who talked and sometimes argued with your friends and neighbors, who emailed and contributed online, who invested so much in our common enterprise, to the moms and dads who came to our events, who lifted their little girls and little boys on their shoulders and whispered in their ears, “See, you can be anything you want to be.”
To the young people like 13 year-old Ann Riddle from Mayfield, Ohio who had been saving for two years to go to Disney World, and decided to use her savings instead to travel to Pennsylvania with her Mom and volunteer there as well. To the veterans and the childhood friends, to New Yorkers and Arkansans who traveled across the country and telling anyone who would listen why you supported me.
To all those women in their 80s and their 90s born before women could vote who cast their votes for our campaign. I’ve told you before about Florence Steen of South Dakota, who was 88 years old, and insisted that her daughter bring an absentee ballot to her hospice bedside. Her daughter and a friend put an American flag behind her bed and helped her fill out the ballot. She passed away soon after, and under state law, her ballot didn’t count. But her daughter later told a reporter, “My dad’s an ornery old cowboy, and he didn’t like it when he heard mom’s vote wouldn’t be counted. I don’t think he had voted in 20 years. But he voted in place of my mom.”
To all those who voted for me, and to whom I pledged my utmost, my commitment to you and to the progress we seek is unyielding. You have inspired and touched me with the stories of the joys and sorrows that make up the fabric of our lives and you have humbled me with your commitment to our country.
18 million of you from all walks of life – women and men, young and old, Latino and Asian, African-American and Caucasian, rich, poor and middle class, gay and straight – you have stood strong with me. And I will continue to stand strong with you, every time, every place, and every way that I can. The dreams we share are worth fighting for.
Remember - we fought for the single mom with a young daughter, juggling work and school, who told me, “I’m doing it all to better myself for her.” We fought for the woman who grabbed my hand, and asked me, “What are you going to do to make sure I have health care?” and began to cry because even though she works three jobs, she can’t afford insurance. We fought for the young man in the Marine Corps t-shirt who waited months for medical care and said, “Take care of my buddies over there and then, will you please help take care of me?” We fought for all those who’ve lost jobs and health care, who can’t afford gas or groceries or college, who have felt invisible to their president these last seven years.
I entered this race because I have an old-fashioned conviction: that public service is about helping people solve their problems and live their dreams. I’ve had every opportunity and blessing in my own life – and I want the same for all Americans. Until that day comes, you will always find me on the front lines of democracy – fighting for the future.
The way to continue our fight now – to accomplish the goals for which we stand – is to take our energy, our passion, our strength and do all we can to help elect Barack Obama the next President of the United States.
Today, as I suspend my campaign, I congratulate him on the victory he has won and the extraordinary race he has run. I endorse him, and throw my full support behind him. And I ask all of you to join me in working as hard for Barack Obama as you have for me.
I have served in the Senate with him for four years. I have been in this campaign with him for 16 months. I have stood on the stage and gone toe-to-toe with him in 22 debates. I have had a front row seat to his candidacy, and I have seen his strength and determination, his grace and his grit.
In his own life, Barack Obama has lived the American Dream. As a community organizer, in the state senate, as a United States Senator - he has dedicated himself to ensuring the dream is realized. And in this campaign, he has inspired so many to become involved in the democratic process and invested in our common future.
Now when I started this race, I intended to win back the White House, and make sure we have a president who puts our country back on the path to peace, prosperity, and progress. And that's exactly what we're going to do by ensuring that Barack Obama walks through the doors of the Oval Office on January 20, 2009.
I understand that we all know this has been a tough fight. The Democratic Party is a family, and it’s now time to restore the ties that bind us together and to come together around the ideals we share, the values we cherish, and the country we love.
We may have started on separate journeys – but today, our paths have merged. And we are all heading toward the same destination, united and more ready than ever to win in November and to turn our country around because so much is at stake.
We all want an economy that sustains the American Dream, the opportunity to work hard and have that work rewarded, to save for college, a home and retirement, to afford that gas and those groceries and still have a little left over at the end of the month. An economy that lifts all of our people and ensures that our prosperity is broadly distributed and shared.
We all want a health care system that is universal, high quality, and affordable so that parents no longer have to choose between care for themselves or their children or be stuck in dead end jobs simply to keep their insurance. This isn’t just an issue for me – it is a passion and a cause – and it is a fight I will continue until every single American is insured – no exceptions, no excuses.
We all want an America defined by deep and meaningful equality – from civil rights to labor rights, from women’s rights to gay rights, from ending discrimination to promoting unionization to providing help for the most important job there is: caring for our families.
We all want to restore America’s standing in the world, to end the war in Iraq and once again lead by the power of our values, and to join with our allies to confront our shared challenges from poverty and genocide to terrorism and global warming.
You know, I’ve been involved in politics and public life in one way or another for four decades. During those forty years, our country has voted ten times for President. Democrats won only three of those times. And the man who won two of those elections is with us today.
We made tremendous progress during the 90s under a Democratic President, with a flourishing economy, and our leadership for peace and security respected around the world. Just think how much more progress we could have made over the past 40 years if we had a Democratic president. Think about the lost opportunities of these past seven years – on the environment and the economy, on health care and civil rights, on education, foreign policy and the Supreme Court. Imagine how far we could’ve come, how much we could’ve achieved if we had just had a Democrat in the White House.
We cannot let this moment slip away. We have come too far and accomplished too much.
Now the journey ahead will not be easy. Some will say we can’t do it. That it’s too hard. That we’re just not up to the task. But for as long as America has existed, it has been the American way to reject “can’t do” claims, and to choose instead to stretch the boundaries of the possible through hard work, determination, and a pioneering spirit.
It is this belief, this optimism, that Senator Obama and I share, and that has inspired so many millions of our supporters to make their voices heard.
So today, I am standing with Senator Obama to say: Yes we can.
Together we will work. We’ll have to work hard to get universal health care. But on the day we live in an America where no child, no man, and no woman is without health insurance, we will live in a stronger America. That’s why we need to help elect Barack Obama our President.
We’ll have to work hard to get back to fiscal responsibility and a strong middle class. But on the day we live in an America whose middle class is thriving and growing again, where all Americans, no matter where they live or where their ancestors came from, can earn a decent living, we will live in a stronger America and that is why we must elect Barack Obama our President.
We’ll have to work hard to foster the innovation that makes us energy independent and lift the threat of global warming from our children’s future. But on the day we live in an America fueled by renewable energy, we will live in a stronger America. That’s why we have to help elect Barack Obama our President.
We’ll have to work hard to bring our troops home from Iraq, and get them the support they’ve earned by their service. But on the day we live in an America that’s as loyal to our troops as they have been to us, we will live in a stronger America and that is why we must help elect Barack Obama our President.
This election is a turning point election and it is critical that we all understand what our choice really is. Will we go forward together or will we stall and slip backwards. Think how much progress we have already made. When we first started, people everywhere asked the same questions:
Could a woman really serve as Commander-in-Chief? Well, I think we answered that one.
And could an African American really be our President? Senator Obama has answered that one.
Together Senator Obama and I achieved milestones essential to our progress as a nation, part of our perpetual duty to form a more perfect union.
Now, on a personal note – when I was asked what it means to be a woman running for President, I always gave the same answer: that I was proud to be running as a woman but I was running because I thought I’d be the best President. But I am a woman, and like millions of women, I know there are still barriers and biases out there, often unconscious.
I want to build an America that respects and embraces the potential of every last one of us.
I ran as a daughter who benefited from opportunities my mother never dreamed of. I ran as a mother who worries about my daughter’s future and a mother who wants to lead all children to brighter tomorrows. To build that future I see, we must make sure that women and men alike understand the struggles of their grandmothers and mothers, and that women enjoy equal opportunities, equal pay, and equal respect. Let us resolve and work toward achieving some very simple propositions: There are no acceptable limits and there are no acceptable prejudices in the twenty-first century.
You can be so proud that, from now on, it will be unremarkable for a woman to win primary state victories, unremarkable to have a woman in a close race to be our nominee, unremarkable to think that a woman can be the President of the United States. And that is truly remarkable.
To those who are disappointed that we couldn’t go all the way – especially the young people who put so much into this campaign – it would break my heart if, in falling short of my goal, I in any way discouraged any of you from pursuing yours. Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply about what you believe in. When you stumble, keep faith. When you’re knocked down, get right back up. And never listen to anyone who says you can’t or shouldn’t go on.
As we gather here today in this historic magnificent building, the 50th woman to leave this Earth is orbiting overhead. If we can blast 50 women into space, we will someday launch a woman into the White House.
Although we weren’t able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it’s got about 18 million cracks in it. And the light is shining through like never before, filling us all with the hope and the sure knowledge that the path will be a little easier next time. That has always been the history of progress in America.
Think of the suffragists who gathered at Seneca Falls in 1848 and those who kept fighting until women could cast their votes. Think of the abolitionists who struggled and died to see the end of slavery. Think of the civil rights heroes and foot-soldiers who marched, protested and risked their lives to bring about the end to segregation and Jim Crow.
Because of them, I grew up taking for granted that women could vote. Because of them, my daughter grew up taking for granted that children of all colors could go to school together. Because of them, Barack Obama and I could wage a hard fought campaign for the Democratic nomination. Because of them, and because of you, children today will grow up taking for granted that an African American or a woman can yes, become President of the United States.
When that day arrives and a woman takes the oath of office as our President, we will all stand taller, proud of the values of our nation, proud that every little girl can dream and that her dreams can come true in America. And all of you will know that because of your passion and hard work you helped pave the way for that day.
So I want to say to my supporters, when you hear people saying – or think to yourself – “if only” or “what if,” I say, “please don’t go there.” Every moment wasted looking back keeps us from moving forward.
Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together for what still can be. And that is why I will work my heart out to make sure that Senator Obama is our next President and I hope and pray that all of you will join me in that effort.
To my supporters and colleagues in Congress, to the governors and mayors, elected officials who stood with me, in good times and in bad, thank you for your strength and leadership. To my friends in our labor unions who stood strong every step of the way – I thank you and pledge my support to you. To my friends, from every stage of my life – your love and ongoing commitments sustain me every single day. To my family – especially Bill and Chelsea and my mother, you mean the world to me and I thank you for all you have done. And to my extraordinary staff, volunteers and supporters, thank you for working those long, hard hours. Thank you for dropping everything – leaving work or school – traveling to places you’d never been, sometimes for months on end. And thanks to your families as well because your sacrifice was theirs too.
All of you were there for me every step of the way. Being human, we are imperfect. That’s why we need each other. To catch each other when we falter. To encourage each other when we lose heart. Some may lead; others may follow; but none of us can go it alone. The changes we’re working for are changes that we can only accomplish together. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are rights that belong to each of us as individuals. But our lives, our freedom, our happiness, are best enjoyed, best protected, and best advanced when we do work together.
That is what we will do now as we join forces with Senator Obama and his campaign. We will make history together as we write the next chapter in America’s story. We will stand united for the values we hold dear, for the vision of progress we share, and for the country we love. There is nothing more American than that.
And looking out at you today, I have never felt so blessed. The challenges that I have faced in this campaign are nothing compared to those that millions of Americans face every day in their own lives. So today, I’m going to count my blessings and keep on going. I’m going to keep doing what I was doing long before the cameras ever showed up and what I’ll be doing long after they’re gone: Working to give every American the same opportunities I had, and working to ensure that every child has the chance to grow up and achieve his or her God-given potential.
I will do it with a heart filled with gratitude, with a deep and abiding love for our country– and with nothing but optimism and confidence for the days ahead. This is now our time to do all that we can to make sure that in this election we add another Democratic president to that very small list of the last 40 years and that we take back our country and once again move with progress and commitment to the future.
Thank you all and God bless you and God bless America.
Resigned, again!
Dear Mr. XXX
I’m writing to you to apply for resignation. I know my English is not good. I looked up many resignation templates and finally wrote this email in English. I hope you could understand and approve it.
This was not an easy decision to make, on my part. Two year ago, I was so excited when I got the offer from XXX. It was my first time to get the offer from a big and great company. At that moment, I told myself I ought to work hard and did something on such a good platform. But two years later, I did nothing. I really embarrassed myself. The life in the past two years was like a dream, a peaceful dream, for me. Every morning I went to work and went home every night, day after day, without any pressure. Every month, I was lucky to get the salary in time. But sometimes, I even asked myself who is the boss I served for.
No pain, no gain. I totally understand this quote now. Usually I shame on myself when I review the past life. I cannot stand on this status any more.
Great company deserves great man. I begin to suspect myself to be a great employee. I have lost the feeling of success for a long time. I am eager to find it now. Be frankly, I really appreciate you for the help and kindly teaching. I learned a lot of things and changed a lot of minds. All in one word, I owe XXX a big thanks.
But I have decided to say goodbye. I wish you and the company all the best. I do hope our paths cross again in the future.
Sincerely,
James Zhao
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前言：又一次，我选择了辞职；又一次，前进的道路要改变方向。昨天晚上，老大叫我回公司讨论我的辞职问题，他把我狠狠骂了一顿：好好的“黄埔军校”不念了，又要去“当八路打游击”。我也很坦诚地回答：我是农民出生泥腿子一个，天生“当八路”的命......
两年，又是一个两年过去了。刚毕业时，我懵懵懂懂地进入了一家小公司，一心就是想着多学点东西，多攒点钱。期间学了不少东西，但也犯了不少错误。工作两年后，工作环境和氛围确实让我无法忍受，我伤心地选择了辞职。很幸运地，我进入现在的公司，a big and great company。这里是高高的写字楼、舒适的工作环境、规范的工作制度，而且还有很多成功人士不时地在“传经诵道”。我本想在这好好学，好好干。可结果又是一无所成，又要选择离开。可是离毕业已经过去了四年。四年的时间，一个新生可以完成所有本科的学业；四年的时间，我的大学同学也大都变成了博士。而我却似乎跑了几趟短距离的折返跑，现在又回到了起点。自责?悔恨?羞愧?绝望?我已经不想考虑这些无法改变事实的情感。好好反思，总结进取才是当务之急。
老大问我为什么要辞职的时候，我列了三条原因：其一、工作没有挑战性，不满意目前的工作状态；其二、没钱了，嫌工资少缺钱花；其三、对公司不了解，对未来在公司的发展表示怀疑，而有一帮曾经一起“打过仗”的兄弟在等我。我的三点原因，老大也表示理解，并且经过反复交流之后，他承诺会解决前面两个原因，而第三个原因他不能给予任何承诺，他也承认这两年跟我“交往”不深，没有那种超乎同事关系的“战友”关系，所以需要我自己take a little risk，相信公司的发展空间。我非常感谢他的坦诚与理解。不过我下定了了决心也很固执。他知道我已经下定决心后，也放弃了挽留。我知道，过去的两年，我在公司几乎是invisible的，他肯定也不怎么了解我，所以他只是善意地挽留，但是真正留下来对公司的作用他也在take risk。老大随后也很关心地问了了我以后的发展，我也好不掩饰地告诉他我要再回到医疗行业做产品。我知道我不是技术的天才，也知道自己有很多缺点导致了技术上无法突破，但是我也感觉到了自己的一点点长处，我觉得我对产品感兴趣，我对行业的需求比较敏感，我也渴望能够在行业内做出有成就感的产品来。他知道我现在资历尚浅，这么早就回到产业领域会碰到很多挫折，甚至失败，我虚心接受了他的建议。他说的两点我觉得很好：想要在行业里面作出点成绩，一要对基础平台技术非常了解，二要对行业非常了解。而且他也知道医疗行业目前还是一块大肥肉，市场还比较混乱，大家都还能分一杯羹，但是三五年之后恐怕就会有“大手笔”的公司出来“一统天下”，或者“三分天下”，市场会慢慢从segmental的状态变成chunks。所以他也赞成这几年赚点钱没问题，不过以后的事就说不准了。我也笑着回答说我也希望能赚点钱解决燃眉之急。
最后老大还谦虚地问我对他的看法，给他提点意见。我也不怎么熟悉他，简单地把他以前说过的几句话换了个模样还给了他：优秀的技术人员分两类，一类是技术很精通，而且能把技术上的心得应用到生活上；另一类是生活上很多体会和收获，通过生活上的体会去学习和应用技术。我说他属于第一类人。我知道他是很崇拜也很希望成为第一类人，所以算是我拍了一下马屁。我z知道他一心想要建立一个“黄埔军校”，改变国内软件开发人员浮躁的心态，毛糙的技术。我还是蛮敬重他的。
过去的事已经成为历史，将来的生活还要继续。我应该好好总结教训，即使屡败，也要继续战斗。正像老大的告诫，医疗市场也许能容我这些小罗罗浑水摸鱼的时间也就三五年，我应该时刻以此告诫自己，“浑水摸鱼”的同时也要严格要求自己，不断提高个人的素质，即使离开了“黄埔军校”也要不忘“军规”严于律己，遵守“八路军”的“八大纪律”。总之，没有纪律的部队是打不赢杖的，而光有纪律也不一定就能打赢的。我们“土八路”是能够战胜“黄埔军校”的高级将领，我总结了两点原因：一是“八路军”尊敬“黄埔军校”的将领，愿意向他们学习并且模仿先进的“作战理论”，而“黄埔军校”的将领却经常不把“土八路”放在眼里，甚至“鄙视”他们；二是“黄埔军校”的将领们有退路输得起，即使兵败了，凭他一身硬本领还是处处是活路，可是我们“土八路”输不起，输了就“一穷二白”了，所以我们不能想到输，只能不惜一切去赢！
I’m writing to you to apply for resignation. I know my English is not good. I looked up many resignation templates and finally wrote this email in English. I hope you could understand and approve it.
This was not an easy decision to make, on my part. Two year ago, I was so excited when I got the offer from XXX. It was my first time to get the offer from a big and great company. At that moment, I told myself I ought to work hard and did something on such a good platform. But two years later, I did nothing. I really embarrassed myself. The life in the past two years was like a dream, a peaceful dream, for me. Every morning I went to work and went home every night, day after day, without any pressure. Every month, I was lucky to get the salary in time. But sometimes, I even asked myself who is the boss I served for.
No pain, no gain. I totally understand this quote now. Usually I shame on myself when I review the past life. I cannot stand on this status any more.
Great company deserves great man. I begin to suspect myself to be a great employee. I have lost the feeling of success for a long time. I am eager to find it now. Be frankly, I really appreciate you for the help and kindly teaching. I learned a lot of things and changed a lot of minds. All in one word, I owe XXX a big thanks.
But I have decided to say goodbye. I wish you and the company all the best. I do hope our paths cross again in the future.
Sincerely,
James Zhao
====================================================================
前言：又一次，我选择了辞职；又一次，前进的道路要改变方向。昨天晚上，老大叫我回公司讨论我的辞职问题，他把我狠狠骂了一顿：好好的“黄埔军校”不念了，又要去“当八路打游击”。我也很坦诚地回答：我是农民出生泥腿子一个，天生“当八路”的命......
两年，又是一个两年过去了。刚毕业时，我懵懵懂懂地进入了一家小公司，一心就是想着多学点东西，多攒点钱。期间学了不少东西，但也犯了不少错误。工作两年后，工作环境和氛围确实让我无法忍受，我伤心地选择了辞职。很幸运地，我进入现在的公司，a big and great company。这里是高高的写字楼、舒适的工作环境、规范的工作制度，而且还有很多成功人士不时地在“传经诵道”。我本想在这好好学，好好干。可结果又是一无所成，又要选择离开。可是离毕业已经过去了四年。四年的时间，一个新生可以完成所有本科的学业；四年的时间，我的大学同学也大都变成了博士。而我却似乎跑了几趟短距离的折返跑，现在又回到了起点。自责?悔恨?羞愧?绝望?我已经不想考虑这些无法改变事实的情感。好好反思，总结进取才是当务之急。
老大问我为什么要辞职的时候，我列了三条原因：其一、工作没有挑战性，不满意目前的工作状态；其二、没钱了，嫌工资少缺钱花；其三、对公司不了解，对未来在公司的发展表示怀疑，而有一帮曾经一起“打过仗”的兄弟在等我。我的三点原因，老大也表示理解，并且经过反复交流之后，他承诺会解决前面两个原因，而第三个原因他不能给予任何承诺，他也承认这两年跟我“交往”不深，没有那种超乎同事关系的“战友”关系，所以需要我自己take a little risk，相信公司的发展空间。我非常感谢他的坦诚与理解。不过我下定了了决心也很固执。他知道我已经下定决心后，也放弃了挽留。我知道，过去的两年，我在公司几乎是invisible的，他肯定也不怎么了解我，所以他只是善意地挽留，但是真正留下来对公司的作用他也在take risk。老大随后也很关心地问了了我以后的发展，我也好不掩饰地告诉他我要再回到医疗行业做产品。我知道我不是技术的天才，也知道自己有很多缺点导致了技术上无法突破，但是我也感觉到了自己的一点点长处，我觉得我对产品感兴趣，我对行业的需求比较敏感，我也渴望能够在行业内做出有成就感的产品来。他知道我现在资历尚浅，这么早就回到产业领域会碰到很多挫折，甚至失败，我虚心接受了他的建议。他说的两点我觉得很好：想要在行业里面作出点成绩，一要对基础平台技术非常了解，二要对行业非常了解。而且他也知道医疗行业目前还是一块大肥肉，市场还比较混乱，大家都还能分一杯羹，但是三五年之后恐怕就会有“大手笔”的公司出来“一统天下”，或者“三分天下”，市场会慢慢从segmental的状态变成chunks。所以他也赞成这几年赚点钱没问题，不过以后的事就说不准了。我也笑着回答说我也希望能赚点钱解决燃眉之急。
最后老大还谦虚地问我对他的看法，给他提点意见。我也不怎么熟悉他，简单地把他以前说过的几句话换了个模样还给了他：优秀的技术人员分两类，一类是技术很精通，而且能把技术上的心得应用到生活上；另一类是生活上很多体会和收获，通过生活上的体会去学习和应用技术。我说他属于第一类人。我知道他是很崇拜也很希望成为第一类人，所以算是我拍了一下马屁。我z知道他一心想要建立一个“黄埔军校”，改变国内软件开发人员浮躁的心态，毛糙的技术。我还是蛮敬重他的。
过去的事已经成为历史，将来的生活还要继续。我应该好好总结教训，即使屡败，也要继续战斗。正像老大的告诫，医疗市场也许能容我这些小罗罗浑水摸鱼的时间也就三五年，我应该时刻以此告诫自己，“浑水摸鱼”的同时也要严格要求自己，不断提高个人的素质，即使离开了“黄埔军校”也要不忘“军规”严于律己，遵守“八路军”的“八大纪律”。总之，没有纪律的部队是打不赢杖的，而光有纪律也不一定就能打赢的。我们“土八路”是能够战胜“黄埔军校”的高级将领，我总结了两点原因：一是“八路军”尊敬“黄埔军校”的将领，愿意向他们学习并且模仿先进的“作战理论”，而“黄埔军校”的将领却经常不把“土八路”放在眼里，甚至“鄙视”他们；二是“黄埔军校”的将领们有退路输得起，即使兵败了，凭他一身硬本领还是处处是活路，可是我们“土八路”输不起，输了就“一穷二白”了，所以我们不能想到输，只能不惜一切去赢！
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Hillary's Election Night Speech in New York
Thank you all so much. Thank you and thanks so much to South Dakota. You had the last word in this primary season, and it was worth the wait.
I want to start tonight by congratulating Senator Obama and his supporters on the extraordinary race that they have run. Senator Obama has inspired so many Americans to care about politics and empowered so many more to get involved, and our party and our democracy is stronger and more vibrant as a result. So, we are grateful, and it has been an honor to contest these primaries with him, just as it is an honor to call him my friend. And tonight, I would like all of us to take a moment to recognize him and his supporters for all they have accomplished.
Now, sixteen months ago, you and I began a journey to make history and to remake America. And from the hills of New Hampshire to the hollows of West Virginia and Kentucky, from the fields of California to the factories of Ohio, from the Alleghenies to the Ozarks to the Everglades, to right here in the great state of New York, we saw millions of Americans registering to vote for the first time, raising money for the first time, knocking on doors, making calls, talking to their friends and neighbors, mothers and fathers lifting their little girls and their little boys on to their shoulders and whispering, "See, you can be anything you want to be."
I think, too, of all of those wonderful women in their nineties who came out to see me because they were born before women could vote, and they wanted to be part of making history. And the people who drove for miles, who waved their handmade signs, who went to all the events that we held, who came to hillaryclinton.com and showed the tangible support that they felt in their hearts. And I am just enormously grateful, because in the millions of quiet moments, in thousands of places, you asked yourself a simple question: Who will be the strongest candidate and the strongest president?
Who will be ready to take back the White House and take charge as Commander-in-Chief and lead our country to better tomorrows? People in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the territories, all had a chance to make your voices heard and on Election Day after Election Day, you came out in record numbers to cast your ballots. Nearly eighteen million of you cast your votes for our campaign, carrying the popular vote with more votes than any primary candidate in history. Even when the pundits and the naysayers proclaimed week after week that this race was over, you kept on voting.
You are the nurse on the second shift, the worker on the line, the waitress on her feet, the small business owner, the farmer, the teacher, the miner, the trucker, the soldier, the veteran, the student, the hard working men and women who don't always make the headlines but have always written America’s story. You have voted because you wanted to take back the White House, and because of you, we won together the swing states necessary to get to 270 electoral votes.
In all of the states you voted because you wanted a leader who will stand up for the deepest values of our party. A party that believes everyone should have a fair shot at the American Dream. A party that cherishes every child, values every family, and counts every single vote.
I often felt that each of your votes was a prayer for our nation, a declaration of your dreams for your children, a reflection of your desire to chart a new course in this new century and in the end, while this primary was long, I am so proud we stayed the course together because we stood our ground, it meant that every single United States citizen had a chance to make his or her voice heard.
A record thirty-five million people voted in this primary, from every state, red, blue, purple, people of every age, faith, color and walk of life. And we have brought so many people into the Democratic Party and created enthusiasm among those we seek to serve. And I am committed to uniting our Party, so we move forward, stronger and more ready than ever to take back the White house this November.
For the past seven years, so many people in this country have felt invisible, like your president didn't even really see you. I have seen the shuttered factories, the jobs shipped overseas, the families struggling to afford gas and groceries, but I’ve also seen unions retraining workers to build energy efficient buildings, innovators designing cars that run on fuel cells and bio-fuels and electricity, cars that get more miles per gallon than ever before, cars that will cut the cost of driving, reduce our reliance on foreign oil and fight global warming.
I have met too many people without health care, just a diagnosis away from financial ruin, but I have also seen the scientists and researchers solving the medical mysteries and finding the treatments and cures that are transforming lives. I have seen the struggling schools with the crumbling classrooms and the unfair burdens imposed by No Child Left Behind, but I have also met dedicated and caring teachers who use their own savings to buy supplies, and students passionately engaged in the issues of our time, from ending the genocide in Darfur to once again making the environment a central issue of our day.
None of you is invisible to me. You never have been. I see you, and I know how hardworking you are. I’ve been fighting for you my whole adult life, and I will keep standing for you and working for you every single day because in your courage and character, your energy and ingenuity, your compassion and faith, I see the promise of America every day. The challenges we face are great, but our determination is greater.
You know, I understand that a lot of people are asking, what does Hillary want? What does she want? Well, I want what I have always fought for in this whole campaign. I want to end the war in Iraq. I want to turn this economy around. I want health care for every American. I want every child to live up to his or her God-given potential, and I want the nearly 18 million Americans who voted for me to be respected, to be heard and no longer to be invisible.
You see, I have an old-fashioned notion, one that's been the basis of my candidacy and my life's work, that public service is about helping people solve their problems and live their own dreams. This nation has given me every opportunity, and that's what I want for every single American.
That’s why I want universal health care. It is wrong that Americans pay 50% more for health care than the people of any other wealthy nation, with costs doubling this decade and nearly 50 million people without any health insurance at all. It is wrong for parents to have to choose between care for themselves or their children, to be stuck in dead-end jobs just to keep their insurance or to give up working altogether so their kids will qualify for Medicaid. I have been working on this issue not just for the past 16 months, but for 16 years. And it is a fight I will continue until every single American has health insurance. No exceptions and no excuses.
I want an economy that works for all families. That’s why I have been fighting to create millions of new jobs in clean energy and rebuilding our infrastructure, jobs to come to all of our states and urban and rural areas and suburban communities and small towns. That’s why I sounded the alarm on the home mortgage crisis well over a year ago, because these are the issues that will determine whether we will once again grow together as a nation or continue to grow apart. And I want to restore America’s leadership in the world. I want us to be led once again by the power of our values, to have a foreign policy that is both strong and smart, to join with our allies and confront our shared challenges from poverty and genocide to global terrorism and global warming.
These are the issues that brought me into this race. They are the life blood of my campaign, and they have been and will continue to be the causes of my life. And your spirit has inspired me every day in this race.
While I traveled our country talking about how I wanted to help you, time and again, you reached out to help me, to grab my hand or grip my arm, to look into my eyes and tell me, don't quit, keep fighting, stay in this race for us.
Now there were days when I had the strength enough to fight for all of us, and on the days that I didn't, I leaned on you, the soldier on his third tour of duty in Iraq who told his wife, an Iraqi veteran herself, to take his spending money and donate it to our campaign instead. The 11-year-old boy in Kentucky who sold his bike and video games to raise money for our campaign. The woman who came to a rally hours early, waited and waited to give me a rosary. And all those who whispered to me, simply to say I am praying for you.
So many people said this race was over five months ago in Iowa, but we had faith in each other and you brought me back in New Hampshire and on Super Tuesday and in Ohio and in Pennsylvania and Texas and Indiana, West Virginia, Kentucky, Puerto Rico and South Dakota. I will carry your stories and your dreams with me every day for the rest of my life. I will carry your stories and your dreams with me every day for the rest of my life.
Now the question is, where do we go from here, and given how far we've come and where we need to go as a party, it's a question I don't take lightly. This has been a long campaign, and I will be making no decisions tonight. But this has always been your campaign, so to the 18 million people who voted for me and to our many other supporters out there of all ages, I want to hear from you. I hope you'll go to my website at HillaryClinton.com and share your thoughts with me and help in any way that you can.
In the coming days, I’ll be consulting with supporters and party leaders to determine how to move forward with the best interests of our party and our country guiding my way. And I want to conclude tonight by saying thank you. Thank you to the people across America for welcoming me and my family into your homes and your hearts. Thanks to all of you in every corner of this country who cast your votes for our campaign. I am honored and humbled by your support and your trust. Thanks to my staff and volunteers for all those long hours and late nights, and I thank your families and your loved ones as well, because your sacrifice was theirs. And I especially want to thank all of the leadership of my campaign. Our chairman, Terry McAuliffe and everyone who worked so hard. And, of course, my family for their incredible love, support and work. Bill and Chelsea, Hugh and Maria, Tony and Megan, Zach and Fiona and my mother who turns 89 tomorrow. And, finally, I want to thank all of the people who had the courage to share your stories with me out on the campaign trail.
Tonight, I am thinking of a woman I met just yesterday in Rapid City, South Dakota. We were outside Talley’s Restaurant. There was a crowd there as I was walking into the restaurant. And she was standing right up against the barrier. She grabbed my hand and she said, "What are you going to do to make sure I have health care?" And as she was talking, she began to cry. She told me she works three jobs. She has suffered from seizures since childhood. She hasn't been able to afford insurance ever since she left her parents' home. It is shameful that anyone in this country could tell that story to me. And whatever path I travel next, I promise I will keep faith with her and with everyone I met across this great and good country.
You know, tonight we stand just a few miles from the Statue of Liberty. And from the site where the Twin Towers fell and where America rose again. Lady Liberty's presence and the towers' absence are a constant reminder that here in America, we are resilient, we are courageous, we embrace all of our people and that when we face our challenges together, there is no barrier we can't overcome, no dream we can't realize, nothing we can't do if we just start acting like Americans again.
Thank you all very much. God bless you and God bless America.
I want to start tonight by congratulating Senator Obama and his supporters on the extraordinary race that they have run. Senator Obama has inspired so many Americans to care about politics and empowered so many more to get involved, and our party and our democracy is stronger and more vibrant as a result. So, we are grateful, and it has been an honor to contest these primaries with him, just as it is an honor to call him my friend. And tonight, I would like all of us to take a moment to recognize him and his supporters for all they have accomplished.
Now, sixteen months ago, you and I began a journey to make history and to remake America. And from the hills of New Hampshire to the hollows of West Virginia and Kentucky, from the fields of California to the factories of Ohio, from the Alleghenies to the Ozarks to the Everglades, to right here in the great state of New York, we saw millions of Americans registering to vote for the first time, raising money for the first time, knocking on doors, making calls, talking to their friends and neighbors, mothers and fathers lifting their little girls and their little boys on to their shoulders and whispering, "See, you can be anything you want to be."
I think, too, of all of those wonderful women in their nineties who came out to see me because they were born before women could vote, and they wanted to be part of making history. And the people who drove for miles, who waved their handmade signs, who went to all the events that we held, who came to hillaryclinton.com and showed the tangible support that they felt in their hearts. And I am just enormously grateful, because in the millions of quiet moments, in thousands of places, you asked yourself a simple question: Who will be the strongest candidate and the strongest president?
Who will be ready to take back the White House and take charge as Commander-in-Chief and lead our country to better tomorrows? People in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the territories, all had a chance to make your voices heard and on Election Day after Election Day, you came out in record numbers to cast your ballots. Nearly eighteen million of you cast your votes for our campaign, carrying the popular vote with more votes than any primary candidate in history. Even when the pundits and the naysayers proclaimed week after week that this race was over, you kept on voting.
You are the nurse on the second shift, the worker on the line, the waitress on her feet, the small business owner, the farmer, the teacher, the miner, the trucker, the soldier, the veteran, the student, the hard working men and women who don't always make the headlines but have always written America’s story. You have voted because you wanted to take back the White House, and because of you, we won together the swing states necessary to get to 270 electoral votes.
In all of the states you voted because you wanted a leader who will stand up for the deepest values of our party. A party that believes everyone should have a fair shot at the American Dream. A party that cherishes every child, values every family, and counts every single vote.
I often felt that each of your votes was a prayer for our nation, a declaration of your dreams for your children, a reflection of your desire to chart a new course in this new century and in the end, while this primary was long, I am so proud we stayed the course together because we stood our ground, it meant that every single United States citizen had a chance to make his or her voice heard.
A record thirty-five million people voted in this primary, from every state, red, blue, purple, people of every age, faith, color and walk of life. And we have brought so many people into the Democratic Party and created enthusiasm among those we seek to serve. And I am committed to uniting our Party, so we move forward, stronger and more ready than ever to take back the White house this November.
For the past seven years, so many people in this country have felt invisible, like your president didn't even really see you. I have seen the shuttered factories, the jobs shipped overseas, the families struggling to afford gas and groceries, but I’ve also seen unions retraining workers to build energy efficient buildings, innovators designing cars that run on fuel cells and bio-fuels and electricity, cars that get more miles per gallon than ever before, cars that will cut the cost of driving, reduce our reliance on foreign oil and fight global warming.
I have met too many people without health care, just a diagnosis away from financial ruin, but I have also seen the scientists and researchers solving the medical mysteries and finding the treatments and cures that are transforming lives. I have seen the struggling schools with the crumbling classrooms and the unfair burdens imposed by No Child Left Behind, but I have also met dedicated and caring teachers who use their own savings to buy supplies, and students passionately engaged in the issues of our time, from ending the genocide in Darfur to once again making the environment a central issue of our day.
None of you is invisible to me. You never have been. I see you, and I know how hardworking you are. I’ve been fighting for you my whole adult life, and I will keep standing for you and working for you every single day because in your courage and character, your energy and ingenuity, your compassion and faith, I see the promise of America every day. The challenges we face are great, but our determination is greater.
You know, I understand that a lot of people are asking, what does Hillary want? What does she want? Well, I want what I have always fought for in this whole campaign. I want to end the war in Iraq. I want to turn this economy around. I want health care for every American. I want every child to live up to his or her God-given potential, and I want the nearly 18 million Americans who voted for me to be respected, to be heard and no longer to be invisible.
You see, I have an old-fashioned notion, one that's been the basis of my candidacy and my life's work, that public service is about helping people solve their problems and live their own dreams. This nation has given me every opportunity, and that's what I want for every single American.
That’s why I want universal health care. It is wrong that Americans pay 50% more for health care than the people of any other wealthy nation, with costs doubling this decade and nearly 50 million people without any health insurance at all. It is wrong for parents to have to choose between care for themselves or their children, to be stuck in dead-end jobs just to keep their insurance or to give up working altogether so their kids will qualify for Medicaid. I have been working on this issue not just for the past 16 months, but for 16 years. And it is a fight I will continue until every single American has health insurance. No exceptions and no excuses.
I want an economy that works for all families. That’s why I have been fighting to create millions of new jobs in clean energy and rebuilding our infrastructure, jobs to come to all of our states and urban and rural areas and suburban communities and small towns. That’s why I sounded the alarm on the home mortgage crisis well over a year ago, because these are the issues that will determine whether we will once again grow together as a nation or continue to grow apart. And I want to restore America’s leadership in the world. I want us to be led once again by the power of our values, to have a foreign policy that is both strong and smart, to join with our allies and confront our shared challenges from poverty and genocide to global terrorism and global warming.
These are the issues that brought me into this race. They are the life blood of my campaign, and they have been and will continue to be the causes of my life. And your spirit has inspired me every day in this race.
While I traveled our country talking about how I wanted to help you, time and again, you reached out to help me, to grab my hand or grip my arm, to look into my eyes and tell me, don't quit, keep fighting, stay in this race for us.
Now there were days when I had the strength enough to fight for all of us, and on the days that I didn't, I leaned on you, the soldier on his third tour of duty in Iraq who told his wife, an Iraqi veteran herself, to take his spending money and donate it to our campaign instead. The 11-year-old boy in Kentucky who sold his bike and video games to raise money for our campaign. The woman who came to a rally hours early, waited and waited to give me a rosary. And all those who whispered to me, simply to say I am praying for you.
So many people said this race was over five months ago in Iowa, but we had faith in each other and you brought me back in New Hampshire and on Super Tuesday and in Ohio and in Pennsylvania and Texas and Indiana, West Virginia, Kentucky, Puerto Rico and South Dakota. I will carry your stories and your dreams with me every day for the rest of my life. I will carry your stories and your dreams with me every day for the rest of my life.
Now the question is, where do we go from here, and given how far we've come and where we need to go as a party, it's a question I don't take lightly. This has been a long campaign, and I will be making no decisions tonight. But this has always been your campaign, so to the 18 million people who voted for me and to our many other supporters out there of all ages, I want to hear from you. I hope you'll go to my website at HillaryClinton.com and share your thoughts with me and help in any way that you can.
In the coming days, I’ll be consulting with supporters and party leaders to determine how to move forward with the best interests of our party and our country guiding my way. And I want to conclude tonight by saying thank you. Thank you to the people across America for welcoming me and my family into your homes and your hearts. Thanks to all of you in every corner of this country who cast your votes for our campaign. I am honored and humbled by your support and your trust. Thanks to my staff and volunteers for all those long hours and late nights, and I thank your families and your loved ones as well, because your sacrifice was theirs. And I especially want to thank all of the leadership of my campaign. Our chairman, Terry McAuliffe and everyone who worked so hard. And, of course, my family for their incredible love, support and work. Bill and Chelsea, Hugh and Maria, Tony and Megan, Zach and Fiona and my mother who turns 89 tomorrow. And, finally, I want to thank all of the people who had the courage to share your stories with me out on the campaign trail.
Tonight, I am thinking of a woman I met just yesterday in Rapid City, South Dakota. We were outside Talley’s Restaurant. There was a crowd there as I was walking into the restaurant. And she was standing right up against the barrier. She grabbed my hand and she said, "What are you going to do to make sure I have health care?" And as she was talking, she began to cry. She told me she works three jobs. She has suffered from seizures since childhood. She hasn't been able to afford insurance ever since she left her parents' home. It is shameful that anyone in this country could tell that story to me. And whatever path I travel next, I promise I will keep faith with her and with everyone I met across this great and good country.
You know, tonight we stand just a few miles from the Statue of Liberty. And from the site where the Twin Towers fell and where America rose again. Lady Liberty's presence and the towers' absence are a constant reminder that here in America, we are resilient, we are courageous, we embrace all of our people and that when we face our challenges together, there is no barrier we can't overcome, no dream we can't realize, nothing we can't do if we just start acting like Americans again.
Thank you all very much. God bless you and God bless America.
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