Life is not like cooking, where you can prepare all the ingredients before you start cooking.
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.
Trust is the most valuable resource in mining—harder to earn than any mineral.