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.

现实主义不是复制自然，而是理解其本质。

I think the most important thing in life is to be able to look at yourself in the mirror and like what you see.

The ocean’s resilience is finite—we must act before it’s too late.

The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt it didn't matter.

"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."

The true way is along a rope that is not spanned high in the air, but just above the ground. It seems intended more to cause stumbling than to be walked upon.

数学的美在于它是永恒的，它不会改变。