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.

We are all obsessed with conspiracies, but we are also obsessed with the idea that there is a conspiracy behind everything.

建筑是一种信仰，是对生活的信仰。