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.

"You can't judge people by what they do with their lives. You can only judge them by how they treat you."

The arithmetic of algebraic varieties is a window into the hidden structures of mathematics.

We are the result of our choices.

宋代思想史展现了儒家伦理、佛教精神与道家自然主义的独特融合。