"Escribir es una forma de terapia. A veces me pregunto cómo se las arreglan los que no escriben, los que no componen música o pintan, para escapar de la locura, de la melancolía, del terror pánico inherente a la condición humana."

A good algorithm is like a sharp knife—it does exactly what it is supposed to do with a minimum of applied effort.

If God intended everybody to be the same, he'd have given us all braces on our legs.

We are all trapped in the web of language, but it is also our only means of escape.

除非一个人绝对诚实地问自己在类似情况下是否可能做出同样的事，否则他不应评判他人。