The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
移动的手指在书写；一旦写下，便继续前行：无论是你的虔诚还是智慧，都无法引诱它回来取消半行，你的泪水也无法洗去一个字。
生物学是对那些看起来像是为了某种目的而被设计的复杂事物的研究。
人类最基本的欲望是被承认为一个人。
译文：人必须在事情上磨炼，才能立得住;才能做到安静时也安定，行动时也安定。
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.