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.
科学无法解决自然的最终奥秘。这是因为,最终我们自己也是自然的一部分,因此也是我们试图解决的奥秘的一部分。
我不是一个随波逐流的女孩。我是一个引领潮流的女孩。