The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding because to understand is to be free.
Television is at its most trivial when it tries to instruct.
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.