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.

I don't follow trends, I set them.

作家必须是一个永远的外来者，一个所有权力的批评者。

音乐是唯一有意义的东西了。

Psychology should help us understand how we meet life's challenges.

科学应当为人类服务，而不是反过来。