最好的程序是这样写的:计算机可以快速执行它们,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.
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
你唯一应该努力超越的人就是昨天的自己。
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
强调团队合作在盗墓活动中的重要性。
编辑基因的力量伴随着巨大的伦理责任。
In mathematics, the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.
自我发现的旅程是心理学研究中最具挑战性但也是最有回报的方面之一。