作家是被他的主题所选择的——他的主题是他自己时代的意识。
A writer is selected by his subject—his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
最好的想法往往来自房间里最安静的声音。
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.
人类进步的历史很大程度上是气候变化的历史。
The best way to predict the future is to create it.