艺术的工作就是驱赶丑陋。
The job of art is to chase ugliness away.
2004年夏天从波尔图来到伦敦,出席俱乐部为他安排的记者招待会所说。
译文:有一种忠心被人视为愚行,就是“愚忠”,也有一种孝行被人视为愚行,那是“愚孝”,由此可知,“忠”,“孝”两个字,太过聪明的人是做不来的。同样地,仁和义的行为中,也有虚伪的“假仁”和“假义”,由此可以知道,在一般人所说的仁义之士中,不见得没有奸险狡诈的人。
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.
我准备向他提出一个他不可能拒绝的条件。
Respect others' beliefs and views.