谦逊是科学家所能拥有的最大美德。

最大的爱国主义是当你的国家行为不光彩、愚蠢、恶毒时告诉它。

"Writing is a way to make sense of the chaos of the world."

爱是唯一能够改变一个人的力量。

作品越是个人化，就越具有普遍性。

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.