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.

跨学科的合作对于解决科学中最具挑战性的问题至关重要。

解读：靠炫耀、攀比获得的虚荣感，依赖外界认可，根基不稳，一旦外界夸赞消失，内心只剩空虚失落，劝诫远离虚荣，追求真实价值。

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last

书籍可能是危险的。最好的书应该贴上“这可能会改变你的生活”的标签。