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.

Success is not about the money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives.

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".