最好的程序是这样编写的：计算机可以快速执行它们，而人类可以清楚地理解它们。理想情况下，程序员是一位散文家，他使用传统的美学和文学形式以及数学概念来传达算法的工作原理，并说服读者结果是正确的。
The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.
我们每个人都是自己故事的作者，尽管有时我们无法控制故事的结局。
【译文】 颜渊感叹地说：“老师的学问越仰望越觉得高耸，越钻研越觉得深厚；看着就在前面，忽然却在后面。老师步步引导，用知识丰富我，用礼法约束我，想不学都不成。