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.
虽然熟读了《诗经》三百篇,但让他去处理政事,却办不好;派他出使国外,却不能独立地根据具体情况应对自如;这样的人,读的即使再多,又有什么用处呢?
农业的未来在于平衡生产力与环境管理的可持续实践。
Life is a never-ending struggle between memory and forgetting.
我只是一个来自加拿大、怀揣梦想的孩子。
"In the silence of the night, the writer finds the loudest voices."
有时你建起心墙并非为了远离人群,而是为了看清谁在乎去推倒它。