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 more you try to understand the lie, the less you know."

Identity politics has become a dominant force in contemporary politics, driven by the desire for recognition and dignity.