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.
技术应该为农民服务,而不是让他们的工作复杂化。
你今天感受到的痛苦将是你明天感受到的力量。
心理学必须独立于哲学和生理学。
我不是为了适合某个类别而制作音乐,我是为了感觉对而制作音乐。
I don't need a mirror to know my worth.
我写作是为了理解人类经验的复杂性。