"We are all shaped by the choices of those who came before us."
Success is not just about profit; it's about building something sustainable.
Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
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.
It's funny how things work out.