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.

如果一个人不过高地估计自己，他就会比他自己所估计的要高得多。

如果我们能找到答案，那将是人类理性的终极胜利 — 那时我们就能洞悉上帝的思想。