It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well. 头脑聪明还不够,重要的是好好运用. From Rene Descartes. My colleagues have always brought me some surprises these days, and their talented skills and eloquence have made some indelible impression…

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. 那是我的原则,要是你不喜欢......那我还有其他原则. From Groucho Marx. Please hold on to your principles, if you think they are right. But sometimes, you can be more flexible so that you can stick…

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning. 人生一大乐事莫过去早上醒来可以赖赖床. From Samuel Johnson. Of course it is one of the happiest things, especially when you don't have to worry about your life. But if there are too…

Every one of us want to ameliorate our own condition. You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale. 纠正只能弥补小错,预防却能杜绝大错. From Brock Chisholm. Self-discipline can help us prevent wholesale, and in the best case we wouldn't have to worry about…

When you fall in love, friends, let yourself fall. 当你坠入爱河,我的朋友,你就放手去爱吧. To love someone is like moving into a new house. At first we will fall in love in everything new, we wonder every morning that this is our own, as if they are afraid that someone…

We are all resigned to death: it is life we aren't resigned to. 我们可以屈从于死神,但我们却不能让生活任意摆布. Of all the wonderful gifts that we have been given, one of the greatest is freedom. As much as we may deny it, we are free in our life. That is, we are free in w…

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it. 世界如其所示,那些无足轻重的人,那些听任自己变得无足轻重的人,在这个世界上没有位置. But how to be an important one, or just one who would be useful to the world? Someone has told me th…

Hope clouds observation. 心怀希望会蒙蔽双眼,影响判断. Almost every of us thinks we would be the master of our lives and live the life we are longing to live. I used to think in that way so. But that was the past. Because I have learned that I am just an ordinary…

Life takes on the meaning that you give it. 你赋予生活什么,生活就是什么样子. I always wonder why on earth I am here and why on earth I am living the current life. I always wonder what is the purpose of my life, whether I can be a man that is somewhat useful to othe…

All good things must come to an end. 好景无常. Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own. 情是君喜胜于己欢. From H. Jackson Brown Junior. These days I am busy with an important project.…

To be is to be perceived. 存在即被感知. How to interpret this quote? Maybe it means that everything in your world doesn't exist if you failed to percept it. Moreover, eveything we think we know about the reality surrounding us may be not what it really is.…

Full of luck, health and cheer. We wish you a Happy Chinese New Year! 春节快乐,万事如意! From Shanbay. Today is the Chinese New Year of 2018. Wish every of us a Happy New Year. We will open a new book today, we will forget all our worries today. A new year a…

今天是教师节,祝家里的两位‘老师’节日快乐.一位是幼儿园的保健医,另一位是驾校的教练.不能说是真正的老师,但作的也是传道授业之工作.今天看到新闻,马云要在明年的今天辞去现任阿里巴巴主席一职,继续投身他以前的教育事业中去.之所以在今天宣布这个消息,想必也是借教师节这个节日来表达其对教育事业的热爱和执着.从创办阿里到今天,马云已经为电商事业奋斗了进20年,然而仍然对其之前从事的教育事业执念不放,也可以体现出来马云其博爱和奉献的人格魅力:正如他所讲的,明天是属于年轻人的,未来掌握在他们的手里.而他现在…

An innovation that goes beyond imagination again raised the standard. 颠覆想象的创新,再一次刷新标准. An advertisement for Audi A4L, its lowest price is about 240,000 RMB. Let us remember that: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world. 要记住…

Winning isn't everything, but wanting it is. 胜利并不能代表一切,但求胜心可以. From Arnold Palmer. Compared to this quote, I believe that the quote from Vince Lombardi would be more famous, it goes as following: Winning isn't everything, it is the only thing. But is…

Soon is not as good as now. 别谈未来,现在就行动. From Seth Godin. I always told myself that I should finish what I should do as soon as possible, but the ending might be always the same: The things were finished just before the deadlines with poor quality. An…

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning. 如果学习是一根蜡烛,那好奇心就是烛芯. From William Arthur Ward. Please keep curiosity strong. We were all born with curiosity, but many of us might lose our curiosity all too soon. But curiosity is very important to our…

We are who we choose to be. 要成为怎样的人,选择在于自己. From Barry Manilow. I believe that we are who we choose to be. Nobody is going to come and save us, we have got to save ourselves. Nobody is going to give us anything, we have got to go out and fight for it…

比赛链接:https://www.codechef.com/FEB18,题面和提交记录是公开的,这里就不再贴了 Chef And His Characters 模拟题 Chef And The Patents 模拟题 Permutation and Palindrome 模拟题 Car-pal Tunnel 结论比较简单 Broken Clock 求余弦的n倍角,可以用复数的快速幂解决 $cos(a)=x \\ sin(a)=\sqrt{1-x^2} \\ cos(na) = Re((x+\sq…

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. 成功,就是即使经历过一个又一个的失败,都没有失去热情. What is enthusiasm? A simple explanation for the word would be to have a keen interest. It means that we have demonstrated an eagerness a…

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. 除了自己的无知,我一无所知. Believe it or not, true wisdom exists in knowing that we really know nothing, we only have educated guesses. It is humble and honest to admit that we as merely mortal human beings do not…

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. 不要为成功而努力,要为做一个有价值的人而努力. Success is external, value is internal. Success and value are related, but value may be more important, because a man of value must be a man of succes…

Do what you say, say what you do. 做你说过的,说你能做的. Be honest to yourself, and be honest to those people we make our promises to. Sometimes it would be better if we don't agree to or promise anything that we are not absolutely sure we can deliver. That se…

No cross, no crown. 不经历风雨,怎能见彩虹. Sometimes you can see a beautiful rainbow high in the sky without having to experience wind and rain, for you can stay in some safe and comfortable places And for some unfortunate ones, they only saw rains but no rain…

Knowledge makes humble, ignorance makes proud. 博学使人谦逊,无知使人骄傲. Humility is not equal with being passive, submissive or insecure, instead, humility means being confident and being competent. Humble people always seek to self-actualize by helping themse…

Great minds think alike. 英雄所见略同. If great minds really did think alike, then we would live in an unreal world which is just a Dstopia. Given that our world is so varied, so I think the great minds don't think alike, though there might be only one tru…

A good beginning is half done. 良好的开端是成功的一半. We can't finish anything if we don't start, sometimes getting started might be the hardest part of the whole process. Get a good start on a project and the rest of it may fall into their own places naturall…

LIfe is about making an impact, not making an income. 生命在于影响他人,而非赚钱糊口. From Kevin Kruse. You probably argue that one must make an income first, then if he has some extra power while earning a not bad life, he can try to pursue some impacts on the wor…

It takes a strong man to save himself, and a great man to save another. 强者自救,圣者渡人. When you are not strong enough to save others, just concentrate on self-improvements and self-promotion. For many of us, the best thing we can do to save others is to…

Confine yourself to the present. 着眼当下. The morning wind spreads its fresh smell, we should get up and take that in, that wind lets us live, breathe, before it's gone. Sometimes we got stuck in the past, and sometimes we only live for the future, but…