"Stories are the way we make sense of our lives."
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.
Sucess is a lousy teacher.It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
I think the most important thing is to be true to yourself.