The most important political distinction among countries concerns not their form of government but their degree of government.

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.

In our industry, if you're not thinking three steps ahead, you're already behind.

在你背叛别人的那一刻，你也背叛了自己。

Leadership is about making tough decisions today that will shape a better tomorrow.

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

在一个不自由的世界里，唯一的应对方式是变得如此绝对自由，以至于你的存在本身就是一种反叛。