Technology ultimately serves people, not the other way around.

Music is the universal language that connects us all.

——〈在香港大学的演说〉（又名〈革命思想之产生〉），1923年2月19日

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.