A good novel tells us the truth about its characters; a great novel tells us the truth about ourselves.

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.

爱的意义是爱那些不可爱的；宽恕的意义是宽恕那些不可宽恕的；信仰的意义是信仰那些不可置信的；希望的意义是当一切看上去毫无希望的时候仍心有希望。

竞争是好事，它迫使你不断进步。