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 idea that we will make a society where literally everybody is graded, the good at the top, bad at the bottom, exactly done as it should be, is impossible. There are simply too many random factors: accidents, accidents of birth, accidents of things dropping on people's heads, illnesses, etc. We will never get to grade them, never get to grade people as they should.

I’m going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

教育的首要目标是培养能够做新事情的人，而不仅仅是重复前几代人所做的事情。

预测未来的最好方法就是创造未来。

I’m very proud of my body.

By used books. They have the same words as the new ones. Also libraries.