文明的伟大进步，无论是在建筑、绘画、科学、文学、工业还是农业领域，都从未来自中央集权的政府。
The human mind is a serial processor operating on parallel hardware.
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.