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.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

自由的代价是永恒的警惕。

把你的手放在滚热的炉子上一分钟，感觉起来像一小时。坐在一个漂亮姑娘身边整整一小时，感觉起来像一分钟。这就是相对论。

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

故事的真谛不在于它的情节，而在于它唤起的情感和揭示的真相。