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.

通往地狱的路是由善意铺成的。

写作是一种孤独的职业，但正是这种孤独让我们能够深入探索人性的深处。

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own.

我们也会从电视、广告，各样的市场宣传中得到我们对成功的想象。这些东西影响了我们，对我们自己的看法、我们想要什么。当我们听说银行业是个受人尊敬的行业，许多人便加入银行业，当银行业不再受人尊敬，我们便对银行业失去兴趣，我们很能接受建议。

The best architecture is humane.

技术的真正力量在于它连接我们的能力，不仅仅是连接信息，而是连接彼此。

美是唯一能拯救我们的东西，但它也是最脆弱的。

当你为自己的生活承担责任的那一刻，就是你开始改变它的那一刻。