永远不要低估微小改进的力量——它们会随着时间累积。
如果你发现自己在想 "咦，我的好刀呢？”或者“我的好笔在哪里？" 这意味着你有的是坏的东西。把坏的扔掉吧。
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.
——1963年6月25日在西德市政厅柏林墙前的演说
I’ve never been a person that has been concerned about what people say. I’m just me.