The greatest curse in life is the possession of great talents without the will to use them.

 我既是旁观者清亦是当局者迷。

Architecture is not about solving problems, but about creating questions.

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.