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.

我唯一的竞争对手是我自己。

不要吹开毛发去寻找小疤痕，不要洗净污垢去察看难以知晓的毛病。

实现明天理想的唯一障碍是今天的疑虑。

The study of mental processes requires both experimental and comparative methods.

写作行为是对那些试图抹去我们的力量的一种抵抗。