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.
最好的程序是这样写的：计算机可以快速执行它们，人类可以清楚地理解它们。理想情况下，程序员是一位散文家，他使用传统的美学和文学形式以及数学概念来传达算法的工作原理，并说服读者结果是正确的。
科学的本质不在于知道，而在于寻求。
You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
我们不是按照事物的本来面目看待它们，而是按照我们自己的样子看待它们。
我相信想象力的力量可以改变世界。
It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess， but the ridiculous and shameful things.
You can't change the past, but you can shape the future.
当一种编程语言的程序需要关注无关的细节时，它就是低级的。
I must have flowers, always, and always.