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.

性能的关键在于优雅，而不是大量的特殊情况。

A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins.

记忆是我们不断告诉自己我们的故事的方式——并且告诉别人一个稍微不同版本的故事。