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 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.
当我们发现，这个有形世界的结构竟然与纯由数理逻辑与形上之美所导出的概念紧密相符，这难道不是最令我们觉得奥妙与敬畏的吗？
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
我为自己的体重感到骄傲。我永远不会是零号身材，我也不想成为那样。
沟通中最重要的是听到没有说出来的话。
故事不在于情节；情节是发生的事情，故事是它的意义。