The best technology is invisible—it just works seamlessly.

诗人是不可见之物的祭司。

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.

使生活成为可能的唯一事情是永久的、无法忍受的不确定性；不知道接下来会发生什么。

译文：富贵最容易招人嫉恨，所以务必要宽厚谦恭待人，才没有大的祸患。福禄有定数，务必要节俭朴素，才能延续长久。赏析：富贵荣华本没有错，但是人一旦拥有它之后，如果骄横跋扈，聛睨一切，那么也最容易招致杀身之祸。

我对官方历史和个人记忆之间的空白感兴趣。

能量守恒定律是经验结果的概括。