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 unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

戏剧应该是镜子，而非画作。

To write is to leave a trace, to make a mark on the world.

"The world is full of victims, and I am one of them."

"Empathy makes you a better innovator."