"In the end, all we have are the stories we tell ourselves."
最终,我们所拥有的只是我们告诉自己的故事。
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.
Denying or deflecting a compliment is rude. Accept it with thanks, even if you believe it is not deserved.