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.
Matter is divisible ad infinitum, while form is indivisible.
结合仓储式零售与娱乐化体验的模式
写作是一种向世界说“我存在,我有话要说”的方式。
最伟大的故事是那些让我们质疑自己生活的故事。
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.