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 most important skill in mathematics is the ability to ask the right questions.

Every soul is a star.

Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten.