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.

Always keep your knife sharp, your wits sharper, and your spirit sharpest.

追求权力是所有大国的主要目标，这种追求常常导致冲突。

Every artwork is a frozen moment in a process of becoming.