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.

The goal of cryptography is to make it so that the cost of breaking the system exceeds the value of the information protected.

最大的风险是不冒任何风险。在一个快速变化的世界里，唯一注定失败的策略就是不冒险。

The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done this way.'

I'm not crazy, I'm just creatively insane.

解释：看到乱子出现，若不警惕，损失就会更多；如果想掩饰自己的过错，只会使过错更加明显地表露出来。

Energy independence is a strategic priority for any sovereign nation.