The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user.
"It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success."
In the end, the goal of computer science is not just to build faster machines, but to deepen our understanding of the universe.
"Stories are the way we pass on wisdom from one generation to the next."