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.

在数字时代，情商可能比技术技能更有价值。

To write is to resist—to resist forgetting, to resist oppression, to resist the erasure of memory.

"The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created—created first in the mind and will, created next in activity."

Principles is another name for prejudice.