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…

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…

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…

Reputation takes a life time to build and a second to destroy. 树立名声需要一生的努力,而毁掉它只需要一秒. To be a smart man, I must know to do something good even though it may be small, and not do something wicked even though it may be tiny, because if I want to build…

The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for. 这世界是个好地方,值得为之奋斗. The world is beautiful, there are so many wonderful things we should defend against any wrongdoing that would undermine them. And there are so many people we love and we are willing…

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…

Calculation never made a hero. 举棋不定,难以称雄. We change. We have to. Or we spend the rest of our lives fighting the same battles. 我们会改变,也必须改变,否则就只能耗尽余生深陷同样的战斗中.…

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…

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.…

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…

Our life is what our thoughts make it. 我们的思想成就了我们的生活. The mind is everything. What you think, you become. And whatever you can do, or whatever you dream you can, begin it, because boldness has genius, power and magic in it. But sometimes, you don't a…

Receive without conceit, release without struggle. 接受时,不狂妄:放手时,不犹豫. How to understand this quote? Doesn't it mean that when we are given some gifts from others, we shouldn't take them for granted, we shouldn't ask for more, when we plan to let someth…

Love is blind, hard to find, difficult to get, and impossible to forget. 爱,很盲目,很难找,很难得,很难忘. It is almost impossible to find love, sincere love if we don't know ourselves, because we may not know who is our Mr. Right among those people me meet in our…

Don't cry for what is lost. Smile for what still remains. 别为失去的哭泣,为还留在你身边的一切微笑吧. I have been told that if crying for missing the sun, we may miss the chance to see the beautiful stars as well. Life would never give us the second time to get something…

Every orientation presupposes a disorientation. 迷失过方向,才能找到方向. Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. By Henry David Thoreau. Sometimes it seems everything about my future was ambiguously assumed. Graduated from college with ugly a…

Love does not dominate, it culitvates. 爱不是羁绊,而是成就. Love should not wipe out everything you are, love should not overpower you in a negative way and make you feel uncomfortable. Instead, it should bring out something good to you. Love requires action,…