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.
最好的程序是这样编写的:计算机可以快速执行它们,而人类可以清楚地理解它们。理想情况下,程序员是一位散文家,他使用传统的美学和文学形式以及数学概念来传达算法的工作原理,并说服读者结果是正确的。
The best films are those that leave the audience with questions, not answers.
在我看来,人类获得对天体事物的洞察所走的道路,几乎与这些事物本身一样值得惊叹。
You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.
农业的效率不仅仅是产量的问题;它关乎资源管理。
I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.
Transparency builds trust, and trust builds business.