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.
最好的程序是这样编写的：计算机可以快速执行它们，而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。
I'm a hopeless romantic and I think that's what makes my heart beat.
历史上的重大战争——我们在我们这个时代已经看到了这一点——是国家不平等发展的直接或间接结果。
最好的故事是那些给你留下更多问题而不是答案的故事。