"The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt it didn't matter."

I'm not a king, I'm not a god, I'm just a man who's trying to make sense of the world.

The tyranny of secrecy is the most tyrannical of all tyrannies.

The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague.

【译文】用心算计别人反而时时出错，退一步考虑事情路子就会很宽。