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。
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.
Art is a way of connecting with people you’ll never meet.
乐观是一种可以学习的技能。一旦你学会了它，你就能在各个方面改善你的生活。
"We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."