最好的艺术是不解释自己的艺术。

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.

生活不是一系列对称排列的灯光；生活是一个光晕，一个半透明的信封，从意识的开始到结束都包围着我们。

遗传不过是储存的环境。

The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

真正的强大始于承认自己的弱点。

诗人的心必须向天堂所有的风敞开。

同一性的概念并不是我们从经验中学到的概念。