最好的程序是这样写的:计算机可以快速执行它们,人类可以清楚地理解它们。理想情况下,程序员是一位散文家,他使用传统的美学和文学形式以及数学概念来传达算法的工作原理,并说服读者结果是正确的。
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.
创新不仅仅是技术的问题;它关乎改变人们的思维和行动方式。
杰夫·贝索斯接受了莱克斯·弗里德曼的播客采访
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
人出生时都是诚实的,死去时却都成了骗子。
在合适的人手中,一本书可能比刀更危险。
译文:不怕自身会产生恶念,只怕发觉自身的恶念太迟。