"Writing is a way to confront the chaos of the world."
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.
出自汉·桓宽《盐铁论·刺赋》。释义:冰和炭不能放在同一个容器之中,太阳和月亮也不会同时照耀大地。比喻君子与小人不能同处,或比喻相互矛盾的理论不能同时运用。