July 27th 2017 Week 30th Thursday

A smile is the most charming part of a person forever.

微笑永远是一个人身上最好看的东西。

Smile in the mirror, and you will find the one in the mirror will smile to you in return.

Do that every morning, and you will start to find a big difference in your life, for that will make you feel confortable, confident and energetic.

You would feel the sun is obviously different today, you will find every one you meet treat you in a much more kindly way, you will find the obstacles may become easier to overtake.

Smile, always keep a smile on your face, and share your smile with the world, it is a symbol, unique symbol of peace and friendship, you will make your world more beautiful.

 

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

船停在港口是安全的，但它不是为停在港口而建造的。

From Grace Murray Hopper.

Compared to writing some meaningless comments about this quotation, I would rather make a brief introduction about this lady, Grace Murray Hopper, because she was almost the predecessor of all our programmers.

Mrs. Grace was an Amercian computer scientist and also a Navy rear admiral.

Amazing accomplishment, especially for a woman, isn't it?

She was a pioneer in computer programming, inventing one of the first compiler related tools.

And she popularized the idea of machine-independent programming languages, which led to the development of COBOL, an early high-level programming language which is still in use today.

Owing to her great achievements, she was sometimes referred as "Amazing Grace".

The life story of Mrs. Grace made me think of the recent hot disputes about the gender difference in programming.

But that will be another larger question, I am not willing to discuss that today.

As a coder, if you are not willing to take some adventures, like learning new skills, re-constructing the program, implementing new design-model, it is no strange that you will be washed out by the fast-developing technology.