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.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.