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 act of writing is an act of resistance.

当你阻止某人胡言乱语的时候，你就无法证明他是个骗子。你只是向其他人表示你害怕他说出什么。