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 best way to learn about someone is to read their story."

你不需要气象员告诉你风往哪边吹。

The true measure of a forest's worth isn't in board feet of timber, but in centuries of ecological balance.