Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to everyone, and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.
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.