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.

Writing is a form of prayer.

最重要的是讲一个好故事。其他一切都是次要的。

出名的好处是可以旅行。我一直想去海外旅行，比如加拿大之类的地方。

理解遗传密码为医学研究和生物技术开辟了新的途径。