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.

To change one's life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.

为了完整地展示这个图表，我确实需要一个四倍空间的屏幕。然而，由于政府支出的削减，我们只能带给一个两倍空间的屏幕。

Safety isn't just a policy, it's a culture that starts at the top.

I believe in being kind to others, but I also believe in standing up for myself.

安享晚年的秘诀就是与孤独签订一份体面的协议。

The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.