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.
Introspection is the only method by which the mind can be directly observed.
我不会让世界决定我的价值。
Cinema is not about showing everything, but about showing just enough to make the audience imagine the rest.
La poesía es la única prueba concreta de la existencia del hombre.
不要自怨自艾,因为这解决不了任何问题。
The novel is the most democratic of art forms because it requires only a reader.
科学是一股向善的力量,但前提是我们明智地使用它。