To write is to resist, to create a space of freedom in a world of constraints.

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.

Persistence is key in mathematical research; many great results come from looking at the same problem from different angles over and over again.

创新不仅仅是技术的问题；它是人与流程无缝协作的结果。