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.

The pursuit of happiness is a never-ending journey.

The only thing that can make you brave is your own fear.

Some people are busy dying, others are busy living.

"Ein Buch ist wie ein Garten, den man in der Tasche trägt."