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.

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

控制愤怒的情绪如同摧毁山峦般坚毅，又如救火一样迅疾；压制欲望如同填塞山谷一样有毅力，又如防洪一样果断。

长期习惯于不认为某件事是错的，会给人一种表面上的正确印象。

最好的写作会为读者留出空间，让他们找到自己的意义。

I think the best films are the ones that leave you with questions, not answers.

没有自由的安全，叫做监狱。