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 world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
The biggest pressure is the pressure I put on myself.