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 real violence is the violence we do to ourselves when we’re too afraid to be who we really are.

关键不是要征服，而是要打好仗。

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled."