To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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.