The night is a great dream, but the stars are its reality.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

I’m not a guy that’s going to let my respect down.

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.